From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:16:40 +0000 (+0200) Subject: sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc6~57^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=799e2205ec65e174f752b558c62a92c4752df313;p=profile%2Fcommon%2Fkernel-common.git 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" Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra CC: Mike Galbraith LKML-Reference: <1255083400.8802.15.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h index 25a9284..d823c24 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 fc0bf3e..57e6357 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 \