linux/arch/x86
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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boot x86: add vmlinux.lds to targets in arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile 2009-08-20 16:08:58 -07:00
configs Merge branch 'x86-kbuild-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-10 15:30:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: aes-ni - Remove CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP from fpu template 2009-06-18 19:44:01 +08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'core/signal' into perfcounters/core 2009-04-30 21:16:49 +02:00
include/asm sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE 2009-09-04 11:52:54 +02:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-08-25 11:24:04 -07:00
kvm KVM: MMU: limit rmap chain length 2009-08-06 12:06:54 +03:00
lguest lguest: update commentry 2009-07-30 16:03:46 +09:30
lib x86, msr: execute on the correct CPU subset 2009-08-03 14:48:13 -07:00
math-emu Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
mm Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-08-25 11:23:25 -07:00
oprofile x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmon 2009-07-10 05:22:50 +02:00
pci x86/pci: insert ioapic resource before assigning unassigned resources 2009-07-10 13:03:14 -07:00
power x86: Fix resume from suspend when CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR 2009-07-08 13:20:13 +02:00
vdso gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64 2009-06-18 13:03:58 -07:00
video
xen Merge branch 'bugfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/urgent 2009-08-20 12:05:24 +02:00
Kbuild x86: standardize Kbuild rules 2009-04-16 18:09:02 +02:00
Kconfig perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallback 2009-08-12 14:12:49 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" 2009-06-11 00:32:00 +02:00
Kconfig.debug kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures 2009-06-15 15:49:17 +02:00
Makefile kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core 2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu