adjust p4 per-cpu gain
PATCH 1/1 adjust p4 per-cpu gain
The smt-nice handling patch is a little too aggressive by not estimating the per cpu gain as high enough for pentium4 hyperthread. This patch changes the per sibling cpu gain from 15% to 25%. The true per cpu gain is entirely dependant on the workload but overall the 2 species of Pentium4 that support hyperthreading have about 20-30% gain.
Patch for 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 attached.
Signed-off-by Con Kolivas <[email protected]>
P.S: Anton - For the power processors that are now using this SMT nice infrastructure it would be worth setting this value separately at 40%.
include/linux/sched.h +1 -1
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ .imbalance_pct = 110, \ .cache_hot_time = 0, \ .cache_nice_tries = 0, \ - .per_cpu_gain =15 , \ + .per_cpu_gain =25 , \ .flags = SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \ |SD_BALANCE_EXEC \ |SD_WAKE_AFFINE \