sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Tue, 5 Oct 2010 00:03:22 +0000 (17:03 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:52:27 +0000 (20:52 +0200)
commitaa483808516ca5cacfa0e5849691f64fec25828e
tree38a1d9f1cb1157bd68dc2475447bacbb4b63c64a
parent305e6835e05513406fa12820e40e4a8ecb63743c
sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power

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>
kernel/sched.c
kernel/sched_fair.c
kernel/sched_features.h