• Ingo Molnar's avatar
    sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE · 840a0653
    Ingo Molnar authored
    Start the re-tuning of the balancer by turning on newidle.
    
    It improves hackbench performance and parallelism on a 4x4 box.
    The "perf stat --repeat 10" measurements give us:
    
      domain0             domain1
      .......................................
     -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
       2041.273208  task-clock-msecs         #      9.354 CPUs    ( +-   0.363% )
    
     +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
       2086.326925  task-clock-msecs         #     11.934 CPUs    ( +-   0.301% )
    
     +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
       2115.289791  task-clock-msecs         #     12.158 CPUs    ( +-   0.263% )
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
    Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
    Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
    Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
    LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    840a0653
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