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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-04 05:32:54 -0400 | 
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-09-04 05:52:54 -0400 | 
| commit | 840a0653100dbde599ae8ddf83fa214dfa5fd1aa (patch) | |
| tree | 273ffb82cb6d6f48c35d94b68e54874451956001 /include/linux/writeback.h | |
| parent | 47734f89be0614b5acbd6a532390f9c72f019648 (diff) | |
sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
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: Peter 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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