The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a static gain for threads. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 + include/linux/topology.h | 1 + kernel/sched.c | 8 +++++++- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/sched.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h @@ -930,6 +930,7 @@ struct sched_domain { unsigned int newidle_idx; unsigned int wake_idx; unsigned int forkexec_idx; + unsigned int smt_gain; int flags; /* See SD_* */ enum sched_domain_level level; Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/topology.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/topology.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/topology.h @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void); | SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER, \ .last_balance = jiffies, \ .balance_interval = 1, \ + .smt_gain = 1178, /* 15% */ \ } #endif #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_SMT */ Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c @@ -8490,9 +8490,15 @@ static void init_sched_groups_power(int weight = cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd)); /* * SMT siblings share the power of a single core. + * Usually multiple threads get a better yield out of + * that one core than a single thread would have, + * reflect that in sd->smt_gain. */ - if ((sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER) && weight > 1) + if ((sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER) && weight > 1) { + power *= sd->smt_gain; power /= weight; + power >>= SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT; + } sg_inc_cpu_power(sd->groups, power); return; } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/