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authorPeter Zijlstra <[email protected]>2009-10-09 12:16:40 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2009-10-14 15:02:34 +0200
commit799e2205ec65e174f752b558c62a92c4752df313 (patch)
treedc2438771be941b485f0da12a1ff177f0797e57b
parente17b38bf9e70d74f3739a600db75240078ac1407 (diff)
sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains
Yanmin reported that both tbench and hackbench were significantly hurt by trying to keep tasks local on these domains, esp on small cache machines. So disable it in order to promote spreading outside of the cache domains. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> CC: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <1255083400.8802.15.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/topology.h4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
index 25a92842dd99..d823c245f63b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ extern unsigned long node_remap_size[];
| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \
| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE \
| 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE \
+ | 1*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \
| 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER \
| 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE \
| 0*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES \
diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
index fc0bf3edeb67..57e63579bfdd 100644
--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void);
| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \
| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE \
| 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE \
- | 1*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \
+ | 0*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \
| 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER \
| 1*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES \
| 0*SD_SERIALIZE \
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void);
| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \
| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE \
| 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE \
- | 1*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \
+ | 0*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \
| 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER \
| 0*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES \
| 0*SD_SERIALIZE \