On big POWER7 boxes we see large amounts of CPU time in system
processes like workqueue and watchdog kernel threads.
We currently rebalance the entire machine each time a task goes
idle and this is very expensive on large machines. Disable newidle
balancing at the node level and rely on the scheduler tick to
rebalance across nodes.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>
---
Index: linux-2.6-work/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-work.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h 2011-07-25
12:14:25.448671947 +1000
+++ linux-2.6-work/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h 2011-07-25
12:14:26.568692651 +1000
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static inline int pcibus_to_node(struct
.forkexec_idx = 0, \
\
.flags = 1*SD_LOAD_BALANCE \
- | 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \
+ | 0*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \
| 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC \
| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \
| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE \
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