sched: Fix volanomark performance regression

Commit: b5482cfa1c95a188b3054fa33274806add91bbe5 upstream

Commit fab4762 triggers excessive idle balancing, causing a ~30% loss in
volanomark throughput. Remove idle balancing throttle reset.

Originally-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1289928732.5169.211.camel@maggy.simson.net>
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>

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 445f2d1101fcc4d5763006af5fc2ce2c932cf038..ffd4f574008ff5df41d80b60e0f98f9f21afd376 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3326,10 +3326,6 @@ static void pull_task(struct rq *src_rq, struct task_struct *p,
        set_task_cpu(p, this_cpu);
        activate_task(this_rq, p, 0);
        check_preempt_curr(this_rq, p, 0);
-
-       /* re-arm NEWIDLE balancing when moving tasks */
-       src_rq->avg_idle = this_rq->avg_idle = 2*sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
-       this_rq->idle_stamp = 0;
 }
 
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