Revert "sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations"

This reverts commit 970e178985cadbca660feb02f4d2ee3a09f7fdda.

Nikolay Ulyanitsky reported thatthe 3.6-rc5 kernel has a 15-20%
performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 on his machine (running "pgbench").

Borislav Petkov was able to reproduce this, and bisected it to this
commit 970e178985ca ("sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies' ...")
apparently because the new single-idle-buddy model simply doesn't find
idle CPU's to reschedule on aggressively enough.

Mike Galbraith suspects that it is likely due to the user-mode spinlocks
in PostgreSQL not reacting well to preemption, but we don't really know
the details - I'll just revert the commit for now.

There are hopefully other approaches to improve scheduler scalability
without it causing these kinds of downsides.

Reported-by: Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor@gmail.com>
Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b8c86648a2f9..23bddac4bad8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -954,7 +954,6 @@ struct sched_domain {
         unsigned int smt_gain;
         int flags;                      /* See SD_* */
         int level;
-        int idle_buddy;                 /* cpu assigned to select_idle_sibling() */
 
         /* Runtime fields. */
         unsigned long last_balance;     /* init to jiffies. units in jiffies */