From 46cb4b7c88fa5517f64b5bee42939ea3614cddcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Siddha, Suresh B" Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:32:51 -0700 Subject: sched: dynticks idle load balancing Fix the process idle load balancing in the presence of dynticks. cpus for which ticks are stopped will sleep till the next event wakes it up. Potentially these sleeps can be for large durations and during which today, there is no periodic idle load balancing being done. This patch nominates an owner among the idle cpus, which does the idle load balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus. And once all the cpus are completely idle, then we can stop this idle load balancing too. Checks added in fast path are minimized. Whenever there are busy cpus in the system, there will be an owner(idle cpu) doing the system wide idle load balancing. Open items: 1. Intelligent owner selection (like an idle core in a busy package). 2. Merge with rcu's nohz_cpu_mask? Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 6312521df2c..15ab3e03953 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ extern void sched_init_smp(void); extern void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu); extern cpumask_t nohz_cpu_mask; +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ) +extern int select_nohz_load_balancer(int cpu); +#else +static inline int select_nohz_load_balancer(int cpu) +{ + return 0; +} +#endif /* * Only dump TASK_* tasks. (0 for all tasks) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2