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sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer() 

The CPU that first goes idle becomes the idle-load-balancer and remains
that until either it picks up a task or till all the CPUs of the system
goes idle.

Optimize this further to allow it to relinquish it's post
once all it's siblings in the power-aware sched_domain go idle, thereby
allowing the whole package-core to go idle. While relinquising the post,
nominate another an idle-load balancer from a semi-idle core/package.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090414045535.7645.31641.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Gautham R Shenoy 2009-04-14 10:25:35 +05:30 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent f711f6090a
commit e790fb0ba6
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@ -4414,8 +4414,24 @@ int select_nohz_load_balancer(int stop_tick)
/* make me the ilb owner */
if (atomic_cmpxchg(&nohz.load_balancer, -1, cpu) == -1)
return 1;
} else if (atomic_read(&nohz.load_balancer) == cpu)
} else if (atomic_read(&nohz.load_balancer) == cpu) {
int new_ilb;
if (!(sched_smt_power_savings ||
sched_mc_power_savings))
return 1;
/*
* Check to see if there is a more power-efficient
* ilb.
*/
new_ilb = find_new_ilb(cpu);
if (new_ilb < nr_cpu_ids && new_ilb != cpu) {
atomic_set(&nohz.load_balancer, -1);
resched_cpu(new_ilb);
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
} else {
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, nohz.cpu_mask))
return 0;