sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing

SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq.
When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of
iterations on each run.

This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 93fd30d6dac4..2cc789fef711 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1466,6 +1466,7 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_child_runs_first;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_features;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate;
 
 int sched_nr_latency_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
                 struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length,