linux-kernel - [PATCH V2 0/2] sched: Cleanups,fixes in nohz_kick

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Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:42:33 +0530
From:	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	peterz@...radead.org, mikey@...ling.org, svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	mingo@...nel.org
Cc:	vincent.guittot@...aro.org, bitbucket@...ine.de,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	anton@...ba.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Morten.Rasmussen@....com, pjt@...gle.com
Subject: [PATCH V2 0/2] sched: Cleanups,fixes in nohz_kick_needed()

Changes from V1:https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/21/248

1. Swapped the order of PATCH1 and PATCH2 in V1 so as to not mess with the
nr_busy_cpus parameter computation during asymmetric balancing, while fixing
it.

2. nohz_busy_cpus parameter is to be updated and queried at only one level of
the sched domain-sd_busy where it is relevant.

3. Introduce sd_asym to represent the sched domain where asymmetric load
balancing has to be done.
---

Preeti U Murthy (1):
      sched: Remove un-necessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan (1):
      sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7


 kernel/sched/core.c  |    6 ++++++
 kernel/sched/fair.c  |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 kernel/sched/sched.h |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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