From e0a79f529d5ba2507486d498b25da40911d95cf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Galbraith Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:19:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome If the previous CPU is cache affine and idle, select it. The current implementation simply traverses the sd_llc domain, taking the first idle CPU encountered, which walks buddy pairs hand in hand over the package, inflicting excruciating pain. 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package: pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359371965.5783.127.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed