On 24 September 2014 14:27, Preeti U Murthy [off-list ref] wrote:

On 09/23/2014 09:38 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:

quoted

add the SD_PREFER_SIBLING flag for SMT level in order to ensure that
the scheduler will put at least 1 task per core.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index c7c8ac4..f72663e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -6134,6 +6134,7 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl, int cpu)
       */

      if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY) {
+             sd->flags |= SD_PREFER_SIBLING;
              sd->imbalance_pct = 110;
              sd->smt_gain = 1178; /* ~15% */

Reviewed-by: Preeti U. Murthy <redacted>

Thanks