This patch series tries to reduce contention on task_group's load_avg to improve system performance. It also tries to optimize the use of idle_cpu() call in update_sg_lb_stats().
Waiman Long (3): sched/fair: Avoid redundant idle_cpu() call in update_sg_lb_stats() sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline sched/fair: Use different cachelines for readers and writers of load_avg kernel/sched/core.c | 9 +++++++++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- kernel/sched/sched.h | 15 ++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/