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| author |   Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2007-11-09 22:39:39 +0100 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2007-11-09 22:39:39 +0100 |
| commit | b82d9fdd848abfbe7263a4ecd9bbb55e575100a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d4c525cc4bd633c84abcfd8d934c84e5dc9ce7c /include/linux | |
| parent | sched: fix copy_namespace() <-> sched_fork() dependency in do_fork (diff) | |
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sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing
SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq.
When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of
iterations on each run.
This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 93fd30d6dac4..2cc789fef711 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1466,6 +1466,7 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity; extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_child_runs_first; extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_features; extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost; +extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate; int sched_nr_latency_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, |