ACPI: acpi_pad: tune round_robin_time
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:12:51 +0000 (22:12 -0400)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:42:56 +0000 (11:42 -0400)
In an effort to be fair to bound processes,
acpi_pad periodically moves its forced-idle threads.

The default interval for moving the threads is 10 seconds.
Measurements show that reducing this to 1 second has no
power or performance impact, so reduce default to 1 second.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c

index 1c09e1b..f3e959f 100644 (file)
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void exit_round_robin(unsigned int tsk_index)
 }
 
 static unsigned int idle_pct = 5; /* percentage */
-static unsigned int round_robin_time = 10; /* second */
+static unsigned int round_robin_time = 1; /* second */
 static int power_saving_thread(void *data)
 {
        struct sched_param param = {.sched_priority = 1};