[RFC PATCH 7/9] sched: search SMT before LLC domain

From: subhra mazumdar
Date: Fri Aug 30 2019 - 13:57:34 EST


Search SMT siblings before all CPUs in LLC domain for idle CPU. This helps
in L1 cache locality.
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8856503..94dd4a32 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6274,11 +6274,11 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
return i;
}

- i = select_idle_cpu(p, sd, target);
+ i = select_idle_smt(p, target);
if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
return i;

- i = select_idle_smt(p, target);
+ i = select_idle_cpu(p, sd, target);
if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
return i;

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2.9.3