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    [PATCH] sched: balance on fork · 147cbb4b
    Nick Piggin authored
    Reimplement the balance on exec balancing to be sched-domains aware.  Use this
    to also do balance on fork balancing.  Make x86_64 do balance on fork over the
    NUMA domain.
    
    The problem that the non sched domains aware blancing became apparent on dual
    core, multi socket opterons.  What we want is for the new tasks to be sent to
    a different socket, but more often than not, we would first load up our
    sibling core, or fill two cores of a single remote socket before selecting a
    new one.
    
    This gives large improvements to STREAM on such systems.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
    147cbb4b
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