linux/arch/powerpc
Mike Galbraith 0ec9fab3d1 sched: Improve latencies and throughput
Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a
x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser:

 NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx,
not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where
there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago.

Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies
means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions)

This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well.

Reported-by: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:51:16 +02:00
..
boot powerpc/83xx: Fix PCI IO base address on MPC837xE-RDB boards 2009-07-29 23:18:41 -05:00
configs powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig 2009-08-27 13:27:59 +10:00
include/asm sched: Improve latencies and throughput 2009-09-15 16:51:16 +02:00
kernel Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-11 13:22:43 -07:00
kvm
lib
math-emu
mm powerpc: Allow perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt time 2009-08-18 14:48:43 +10:00
oprofile powerpc: Remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-07-08 13:50:21 +10:00
platforms powerpc/ps3: Add missing check for PS3 to rtc-ps3 platform device registration 2009-08-27 13:25:46 +10:00
sysdev powerpc: Fix i8259 interrupt driver kernel crash on ML510 2009-09-05 14:58:07 -07:00
xmon
Kconfig powerpc: Add irqtrace support for 32-bit powerpc 2009-06-26 14:37:27 +10:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile