From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:56:47 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~538^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=100fdaee70ebf5f31b9451fbc01300c627091328;p=pandora-kernel.git

sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0

Impact: change task balancing to save power more agressively

Add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag at MC level and CPU level
if sched_mc is set.  This helps power savings and
will not affect performance when sched_mc=0

Ingo and Mike Galbraith have optimised the SD flags by
removing SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level.  This
helps performance but hurts power savings since this
slows down task consolidation by reducing the number
of times load_balance is run.

    sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT
        commit 14800984706bf6936bbec5187f736e928be5c218
        Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
        Date:   Fri Nov 7 15:26:50 2008 +0100

    sched: re-tune balancing -- revert
        commit 9fcd18c9e63e325dbd2b4c726623f760788d5aa8
        Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
        Date:   Wed Nov 5 16:52:08 2008 +0100

This patch selectively enables SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag
only when sched_mc is set to 1 or 2.  This helps power savings
by task consolidation and also does not hurt performance at
sched_mc=0 where all power saving optimisations are turned off.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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