[PATCH V2 0/2] sched: Cleanups,fixes in nohz_kick_needed()

Preeti U Murthy preeti at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Oct 30 14:12:33 EST 2013


Changes from V1:https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/21/248

1. Swapped the order of PATCH1 and PATCH2 in V1 so as to not mess with the
nr_busy_cpus parameter computation during asymmetric balancing, while fixing
it.

2. nohz_busy_cpus parameter is to be updated and queried at only one level of
the sched domain-sd_busy where it is relevant.

3. Introduce sd_asym to represent the sched domain where asymmetric load
balancing has to be done.
---

Preeti U Murthy (1):
      sched: Remove un-necessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan (1):
      sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7


 kernel/sched/core.c  |    6 ++++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c  |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 kernel/sched/sched.h |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)



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