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Message-ID: <20070418212645.GU2986@holomorphy.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:26:45 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, caglar@...dus.org.tr,
Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v3
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:50:17PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this is the third release of the CFS patchset (against v2.6.21-rc7), and
> can be downloaded from:
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/
> this is a pure "fix reported regressions" release so there's much less
> churn:
> 5 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> (the added lines are mostly debug related, not genuine increase in the
> scheduler's size)
It appears to me that the following can be taken in for mainline
(or rejected for mainline) independently of the rest of the cfs patch.
-- wli
Mark the runqueues ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to avoid false sharing.
Index: sched/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- sched.orig/kernel/sched.c 2007-04-18 14:10:03.593207728 -0700
+++ sched/kernel/sched.c 2007-04-18 14:11:39.270660075 -0700
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
struct lock_class_key rq_lock_key;
};
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rq, runqueues);
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rq, runqueues) ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
static inline int cpu_of(struct rq *rq)
{
-
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