sched: Improve latencies and throughput

Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a
x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser:

 NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx,
not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where
there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago.

Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies
means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions)

This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well.

Reported-by: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/topology.h
index 9054e5c0ad54..c8436771e31d 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@
         .cache_nice_tries       = 2,                    \
         .busy_idx               = 3,                    \
         .idle_idx               = 2,                    \
-        .newidle_idx            = 2,                    \
+        .newidle_idx            = 0,                    \
         .wake_idx               = 0,                    \
         .forkexec_idx           = 1,                    \
         .flags                  = SD_LOAD_BALANCE       \
                                 | SD_BALANCE_FORK       \
                                 | SD_BALANCE_EXEC       \
                                 | SD_BALANCE_WAKE       \
+                                | SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE    \
                                 | SD_SERIALIZE,         \
         .last_balance           = jiffies,              \
         .balance_interval       = 1,                    \