powerpc/numa: Enable SD_WAKE_AFFINE in node definition
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:33:12 +0000 (16:33 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:53:21 +0000 (15:53 +1000)
When chasing a performance issue on ppc64, I noticed tasks
communicating via a pipe would often end up on different nodes.

It turns out SD_WAKE_AFFINE is not set in our node defition. Commit
9fcd18c9e63e (sched: re-tune balancing) enabled SD_WAKE_AFFINE
in the node definition for x86 and we need a similar change for
ppc64.

I used lmbench lat_ctx and perf bench pipe to verify this fix. Each
benchmark was run 10 times and the average taken.

lmbench lat_ctx:

before:  66565 ops/sec
after:  204700 ops/sec

3.1x faster

perf bench pipe:

before: 5.6570 usecs
after:  1.3470 usecs

4.2x faster

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h

index 7ef0d90..6a7e725 100644 (file)
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static inline int pcibus_to_node(struct pci_bus *bus)
                                | 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC                     \
                                | 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK                     \
                                | 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE                     \
-                               | 0*SD_WAKE_AFFINE                      \
+                               | 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE                      \
                                | 0*SD_PREFER_LOCAL                     \
                                | 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER                   \
                                | 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE             \