Here is a trivial patch that is required to boot the latest 2.6.7 tree on the SGI 512p system.
Initial the busy_factor in the sched_domain_init table.
Otherwise, booting hangs doing excessive load balance
operations.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx>
Index: linux/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3922,6 +3922,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
sched_domain_init.groups = &sched_group_init;
sched_domain_init.last_balance = jiffies;
sched_domain_init.balance_interval = INT_MAX; /* Don't balance */
+ sched_domain_init.busy_factor = 1;
memset(&sched_group_init, 0, sizeof(struct sched_group));
sched_group_init.cpumask = CPU_MASK_ALL;