linux/kernel
Con Kolivas 69f7c0a1be [PATCH] sched: remove SMT nice
Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to
facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared.  The idling of
cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to
break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an
architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be
unworkable.

Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by
this code.

Also:

  The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet
  further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code.  So
  either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely.  It was Ingo's preference
  to kill it off.  Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks
  has gone in.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05 07:57:51 -08:00
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irq [PATCH] genirq: Mask irqs when migrating them. 2007-02-26 10:34:08 -08:00
power power management: no valid states w/o pm_ops 2007-02-23 14:52:09 -08:00
time [TICK] tick-common: Fix one-shot handling in tick_handle_periodic(). 2007-02-26 11:14:15 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: ignore more generated files 2006-01-03 11:35:26 +01:00
acct.c [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:42 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] audit config lockdown 2007-02-17 21:30:12 -05:00
audit.h [PATCH] audit: AUDIT_PERM support 2006-09-11 13:32:30 -04:00
auditfilter.c [PATCH] minor update to rule add/delete messages (ver 2) 2007-02-17 21:30:09 -05:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] AUDIT_FD_PAIR 2007-02-17 21:30:15 -05:00
capability.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
compat.c [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
configs.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
cpu.c [PATCH] swsusp: Change code ordering in disk.c 2007-02-11 10:51:19 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2 2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
delayacct.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
dma.c [PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
exit.c [PATCH] pid: replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphaned 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
extable.c [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel 2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] hrtimers: namespace and enum cleanup 2007-02-16 08:13:58 -08:00
futex_compat.c [PATCH] __user annotations: futex 2006-10-10 15:37:22 -07:00
futex.c [PATCH] hrtimers: namespace and enum cleanup 2007-02-16 08:13:58 -08:00
hrtimer.c [PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_stat 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
itimer.c [PATCH] hrtimers: prevent possible itimer DoS 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodata 2006-12-08 08:28:37 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support 2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-12-07 15:39:22 -08:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
kmod.c Revert "Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent" 2007-02-23 14:54:57 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] kprobes: list all active probes in the system 2007-02-20 17:10:14 -08:00
ksysfs.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
kthread.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
latency.c [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h 2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
lockdep_internals.h [PATCH] lockdep: more chains 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
lockdep_proc.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
lockdep.c [PATCH] fix section mismatch warning in lockdep 2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] sysctl: move utsname sysctls to their own file 2007-02-14 08:09:58 -08:00
module.c Revert "Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent" 2007-02-23 14:54:57 -08:00
mutex-debug.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
mutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
mutex.c [PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in md 2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
mutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
nsproxy.c Revert "[PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit" 2007-01-30 13:35:18 -08:00
panic.c [PATCH] Add TAINT_USER and ability to set taint flags from userspace 2007-02-11 10:51:29 -08:00
params.c Revert "Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent" 2007-02-23 14:54:57 -08:00
pid.c [PATCH] namespaces: fix task exit disaster 2007-01-30 13:40:36 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix timers: RCU optimization for clock_gettime() 2007-02-16 08:14:00 -08:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] hrtimers: add high resolution timer support 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
printk.c kernel/printk.c: comment fix 2007-02-17 20:10:16 +01:00
profile.c [PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() 2006-12-07 08:39:40 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] rcu: rcutorture suspend fix 2006-12-30 10:55:55 -08:00
relay.c [PATCH] kernel-doc fixes for 2.6.20-git15 (non-drivers) 2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
resource.c [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h 2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
rtmutex_common.h [PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support 2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
rtmutex-debug.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rtmutex-tester.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
rtmutex.c [PATCH] hrtimers: namespace and enum cleanup 2007-02-16 08:13:58 -08:00
rtmutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging 2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rwsem.c [PATCH] lockdep: prove rwsem locking correctness 2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] sched: remove SMT nice 2007-03-05 07:57:51 -08:00
seccomp.c
signal.c Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6 2007-02-26 12:48:06 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionality 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] check return value of cpu_callback 2006-09-29 09:18:14 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested() 2006-11-25 13:28:34 -08:00
srcu.c [PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors 2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
stacktrace.c [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, core 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] stop_machine.c copyright 2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pages 2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
sys.c [PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] fix the SYSCTL=n compilation 2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
taskstats.c [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assembling 2006-12-07 08:39:34 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] Fix multiple conversion bugs in msecs_to_jiffies 2007-02-16 08:13:56 -08:00
timer.c [PATCH] kernel-doc fixes for 2.6.20-git15 (non-drivers) 2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
tsacct.c [PATCH] time: x86_64: split x86_64/kernel/time.c up 2007-02-16 08:14:00 -08:00
uid16.c [PATCH] Add more prevent_tail_call() 2006-04-19 16:27:18 -07:00
user.c [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
utsname_sysctl.c [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
utsname.c [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement CLONE_NEWUTS flag 2006-10-02 07:57:22 -07:00
wait.c [PATCH] uninline init_waitqueue_head() 2006-07-10 13:24:25 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_stat 2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00