From 554cecaf733623b327eef9652b65965eb1081b81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diwakar Tundlam Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:44:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer The 'next_balance' field of 'nohz' idle balancer must be initialized to jiffies. Since jiffies is initialized to negative 300 seconds the 'nohz' idle balancer does not run for the first 300s (5mins) after bootup. If no new processes are spawed or no idle cycles happen, the load on the cpus will remain unbalanced for that duration. Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1DD7BFEDD3147247B1355BEFEFE4665237994F30EF@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index def17aa..11f3979 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -5571,6 +5571,7 @@ __init void init_sched_fair_class(void) open_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ, run_rebalance_domains); #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ + nohz.next_balance = jiffies; zalloc_cpumask_var(&nohz.idle_cpus_mask, GFP_NOWAIT); cpu_notifier(sched_ilb_notifier, 0); #endif -- 2.7.4