linux/arch/powerpc
Arnd Bergmann 2a911f0bb7 [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability [part 2].
This patch reduces lock complexity of SPU scheduler, particularly
for involuntary preemptive switches.  As a result the new code
does a better job of mapping the highest priority tasks to SPUs.

Lock complexity is reduced by using the system default workqueue
to perform involuntary saves.  In this way we avoid nasty lock
ordering problems that the previous code had.  A "minimum timeslice"
for SPU contexts is also introduced.  The intent here is to avoid
thrashing.

While the new scheduler does a better job at prioritization it
still does nothing for fairness.

From: Mark Nutter <mnutter@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:52:58 +11:00
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boot [PATCH] powerpc: Fix suboptimal uImage target 2006-01-09 14:50:25 +11:00
configs powerpc: update defconfigs 2005-12-20 16:00:17 +11:00
kernel [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for "linux,usable-memory" on memory nodes 2006-01-09 14:52:38 +11:00
lib powerpc: Fix find_next_bit on 32-bit 2005-11-10 12:01:41 +11:00
mm [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for "linux,usable-memory" on memory nodes 2006-01-09 14:52:38 +11:00
oprofile [PATCH] powerpc: Add a is_kernel_addr() macro 2006-01-09 14:51:50 +11:00
platforms [PATCH] spufs: Improved SPU preemptability [part 2]. 2006-01-09 14:52:58 +11:00
sysdev [PATCH] powerpc32: fix definition of distribute_irqs 2006-01-09 14:51:43 +11:00
xmon [PATCH] powerpc: Add a is_kernel_addr() macro 2006-01-09 14:51:50 +11:00
Kconfig [PATCH] powerpc: Add CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP 2006-01-09 14:52:14 +11:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for building uImages 2006-01-09 14:50:21 +11:00