[PATCH 24/30] sched: disable source/target_load bias

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 08:02:44 EST


The bias given by source/target_load functions can be very large, disable
it by default to get faster convergence.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched.c | 4 ++--
kernel/sched_features.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2000,7 +2000,7 @@ static unsigned long source_load(int cpu
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
unsigned long total = weighted_cpuload(cpu);

- if (type == 0)
+ if (type == 0 || !sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
return total;

return min(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
@@ -2015,7 +2015,7 @@ static unsigned long target_load(int cpu
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
unsigned long total = weighted_cpuload(cpu);

- if (type == 0)
+ if (type == 0 || !sched_feat(LB_BIAS))
return total;

return max(rq->cpu_load[type-1], total);
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_WAKEUPS, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, 0)
SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_GRAN, 1)
+SCHED_FEAT(LB_BIAS, 0)
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