kernel_optimize_test/arch/sparc/kernel
Ingo Molnar 0437e109e1 sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code
the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation
code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for
this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve
the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips
tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'.

this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector
doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot
delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the
balancing code pretty undeterministic as well.

(and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-)

under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without
any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline'
tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the
tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:51:57 +02:00
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apc.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 2 2007-02-12 09:48:44 -08:00
asm-offsets.c rename thread_info to stack 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
auxio.c [SPARC]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:20 -07:00
cpu.c
devices.c
ebus.c [SPARC]: device_node name constification fallout 2007-04-26 01:55:45 -07:00
entry.S
errtbls.c
etrap.S
head.S [SPARC32]: Fix sparc32 kdebug changes. 2007-05-14 03:22:08 -07:00
idprom.c
init_task.c
ioport.c [SPARC]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:20 -07:00
irq.c [SPARC]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:20 -07:00
led.c
Makefile [PATCH] sort the devres mess out 2007-02-11 11:18:07 -08:00
module.c
muldiv.c
of_device.c [SPARC]: constify of_get_property return: arch/sparc 2007-04-26 01:54:22 -07:00
pcic.c [SPARC]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:20 -07:00
pmc.c
process.c [SPARC]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:20 -07:00
prom.c [SPARC]: Use strcasecmp for OFW property name comparisons. 2007-04-26 01:54:41 -07:00
ptrace.c [SPARC{32,64}]: Propagate ptrace_traceme() return value. 2006-12-10 02:40:27 -08:00
rtrap.S
sclow.S
semaphore.c
setup.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
signal.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
smp.c sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code 2007-07-09 18:51:57 +02:00
sparc_ksyms.c [SPARC]: Re-export saved_command_line to modules. 2007-02-12 15:15:48 -08:00
sparc-stub.c
sun4c_irq.c
sun4d_irq.c [SPARC]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:20 -07:00
sun4d_smp.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
sun4m_irq.c [SPARC]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:20 -07:00
sun4m_smp.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
sun4setup.c
sunos_asm.S
sunos_ioctl.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
sys_solaris.c header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
sys_sparc.c
sys_sunos.c [SPARC]: avoid CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX constants 2007-04-12 13:13:42 -07:00
systbls.S [SPARC]: Wire up signalfd/timerfd/eventfd syscalls. 2007-05-11 22:06:51 -07:00
tadpole.c
tick14.c
time.c [SPARC32]: Removes mismatch section warnigs in sparc time.c file 2007-05-29 02:49:16 -07:00
trampoline.S
traps.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
unaligned.c
vmlinux.lds.S all-archs: consolidate .data section definition in asm-generic 2007-05-19 09:11:57 +02:00
windows.c
wof.S
wuf.S