sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Wed, 7 Dec 2011 14:07:31 +0000 (15:07 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:34:44 +0000 (10:34 +0100)
Mike reported a 13% drop in netperf TCP_RR performance due to the
new remote wakeup code. Suresh too noticed some performance issues
with it.

Reducing the IPIs to only cross cache domains solves the observed
performance issues.

Reported-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323338531.17673.7.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched/core.c
kernel/sched/fair.c
kernel/sched/sched.h

Simple merge
Simple merge
Simple merge