linux/arch
Ingo Molnar 840a065310 sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
Start the re-tuning of the balancer by turning on newidle.

It improves hackbench performance and parallelism on a 4x4 box.
The "perf stat --repeat 10" measurements give us:

  domain0             domain1
  .......................................
 -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
   2041.273208  task-clock-msecs         #      9.354 CPUs    ( +-   0.363% )

 +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
   2086.326925  task-clock-msecs         #     11.934 CPUs    ( +-   0.301% )

 +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
   2115.289791  task-clock-msecs         #     12.158 CPUs    ( +-   0.263% )

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 11:52:54 +02:00
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alpha mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
arm [ARM] Kirkwood: enable eSATA on QNAP TS-219P 2009-08-24 11:56:00 -04:00
avr32 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2009-08-24 12:26:48 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: fix wrong CTS inversion 2009-07-20 16:38:44 -07:00
cris mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
frv mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
h8300 sched: INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT 2009-07-10 14:24:05 -07:00
ia64 arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic: missing test after ioremap() 2009-08-11 14:52:11 -07:00
m32r mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
m68k m68k,m68knommu: Wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open 2009-08-26 23:14:50 +02:00
m68knommu m68k,m68knommu: Wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open 2009-08-26 23:14:50 +02:00
microblaze microblaze: Update Microblaze defconfigs 2009-08-18 11:05:11 +02:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus 2009-08-17 13:39:52 -07:00
mn10300 MN10300: includecheck fix: mn10300, pci.h 2009-08-10 08:54:27 -07:00
parisc parisc: Set correct bit in protection flags 2009-08-02 12:36:05 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig 2009-08-27 13:27:59 +10:00
s390 [S390] set preferred console based on conmode 2009-08-23 18:10:01 +02:00
sh sh: sh7724 ddr self-refresh changes 2009-08-15 12:58:50 +09:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2009-08-25 21:24:26 -07:00
um mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
x86 sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE 2009-09-04 11:52:54 +02:00
xtensa mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure 2009-06-18 13:03:57 -07:00