sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:23:27 +0000 (10:23 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:37:27 +0000 (15:37 -0800)
commitc8c885599ad2115e0a2fe661c2fb6ba4edc92c19
tree335a51d3c4b687621eb68cd5c6123d9c947a507a
parent3a69989d43689a40f3af7cad04c5aa840f3d2530
sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power

Commit: aa483808516ca5cacfa0e5849691f64fec25828e upstream

The idea was suggested by Peter Zijlstra here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127476934517534&w=2

irq time is technically not available to the tasks running on the CPU.
This patch removes irq time from CPU power piggybacking on
sched_rt_avg_update().

Tested this by keeping CPU X busy with a network intensive task having 75%
oa a single CPU irq processing (hard+soft) on a 4-way system. And start seven
cycle soakers on the system. Without this change, there will be two tasks on
each CPU. With this change, there is a single task on irq busy CPU X and
remaining 7 tasks are spread around among other 3 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-8-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/sched.c
kernel/sched_features.h