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| author | Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2008-12-18 23:26:47 +0530 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-19 09:21:55 +0100 |
| commit | 100fdaee70ebf5f31b9451fbc01300c627091328 (patch) | |
| tree | 81493242ff99c8ba52163da5b44ffc51929622cf /include/linux/sched.h | |
| parent | ad273b32e482cdef306eac32b28d97f513a022f4 (diff) | |
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sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
Impact: change task balancing to save power more agressively
Add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag at MC level and CPU level
if sched_mc is set. This helps power savings and
will not affect performance when sched_mc=0
Ingo and Mike Galbraith have optimised the SD flags by
removing SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level. This
helps performance but hurts power savings since this
slows down task consolidation by reducing the number
of times load_balance is run.
sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT
commit 14800984706bf6936bbec5187f736e928be5c218
Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Fri Nov 7 15:26:50 2008 +0100
sched: re-tune balancing -- revert
commit 9fcd18c9e63e325dbd2b4c726623f760788d5aa8
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed Nov 5 16:52:08 2008 +0100
This patch selectively enables SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag
only when sched_mc is set to 1 or 2. This helps power savings
by task consolidation and also does not hurt performance at
sched_mc=0 where all power saving optimisations are turned off.
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index a96726658eca..5a933d925473 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -792,6 +792,19 @@ static inline int sd_balance_for_package_power(void) return 0; } +/* + * Optimise SD flags for power savings: + * SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE helps agressive task consolidation and power savings. + * Keep default SD flags if sched_{smt,mc}_power_saving=0 + */ + +static inline int sd_power_saving_flags(void) +{ + if (sched_mc_power_savings | sched_smt_power_savings) + return SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE; + + return 0; +} struct sched_group { struct sched_group *next; /* Must be a circular list */ |
