Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 3 authors, 2014-11-18

[PATCH v8 08/10] sched: add SD_PREFER_SIBLING for SMT level

From: Wanpeng Li <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-04 03:21:43
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Hi Vincent,
On 14/10/31 ??4:47, Vincent Guittot wrote:
Add the SD_PREFER_SIBLING flag for SMT level in order to ensure that
the scheduler will put at least 1 task per core.
What's the behavior before this patch?

Regards,
Wanpeng Li
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U. Murthy <redacted>
---
  kernel/sched/core.c | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 37fb92c..731f2ad 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6165,6 +6165,7 @@ 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% */
  
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