linux/include
Ingo Molnar 0437e109e1 sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code
the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation
code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for
this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve
the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips
tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'.

this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector
doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot
delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the
balancing code pretty undeterministic as well.

(and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-)

under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without
any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline'
tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the
tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:51:57 +02:00
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acpi Pull osi-now into release branch 2007-06-02 01:02:09 -04:00
asm-alpha ALPHA: misc fixes 2007-06-01 08:18:29 -07:00
asm-arm Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM 2007-06-28 11:38:30 -07:00
asm-arm26 [ARM] use __used attribute 2007-05-30 13:15:06 +01:00
asm-avr32 [AVR32] Define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to L1_CACHE_BYTES 2007-06-14 18:30:50 +02:00
asm-blackfin Blackfin arch: remove zero-sized include/asm-blackfin/macros.h 2007-07-03 08:25:50 +08:00
asm-cris Consolidate asm/poll.h 2007-05-11 08:29:34 -07:00
asm-frv frv: fix fallout from "remove sched.h from mm.h" patch 2007-07-01 12:29:44 -07:00
asm-generic Rework ptep_set_access_flags and fix sun4c 2007-06-16 13:16:16 -07:00
asm-h8300 h8300 trival patches 2007-06-01 08:18:29 -07:00
asm-i386 i386: es7000 build breakage fix 2007-07-06 10:23:43 -07:00
asm-ia64 [IA64] change sh_change_coherence oemcall to use nolock 2007-06-26 13:33:58 -07:00
asm-m32r m32r: __xchg() should be always_inline 2007-05-15 18:56:37 -07:00
asm-m68k m68k: discontinuous memory support 2007-05-31 07:58:14 -07:00
asm-m68knommu Remove tas() 2007-05-08 11:15:20 -07:00
asm-mips [MIPS] Fix scheduling latency issue on 24K, 34K and 74K cores 2007-07-06 16:17:11 +01:00
asm-parisc [PARISC] Fix unwinder on 64-bit kernels 2007-06-21 17:46:21 -04:00
asm-powerpc [POWERPC] Uninline and export virq_to_hw() for the pasemi_mac driver 2007-07-02 13:29:21 +10:00
asm-ppc Rework ptep_set_access_flags and fix sun4c 2007-06-16 13:16:16 -07:00
asm-s390 [S390] Move psw_set_key. 2007-06-19 13:10:20 +02:00
asm-sh sh: Fix se73180 platform device registration. 2007-06-04 11:07:23 +09:00
asm-sh64 sh64: generic quicklist support. 2007-05-14 09:55:35 +09:00
asm-sparc Rework ptep_set_access_flags and fix sun4c 2007-06-16 13:16:16 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Add linux/pagemap.h to asm/tlb.h 2007-06-28 21:25:31 -07:00
asm-um uml: add asm/paravirt.h 2007-06-24 08:59:11 -07:00
asm-v850 Consolidate asm/poll.h 2007-05-11 08:29:34 -07:00
asm-x86_64 x86_64: Fix eventd/timerfd syscalls 2007-06-20 14:27:25 -07:00
asm-xtensa Xtensa: use asm-generic/fcntl.h 2007-05-31 20:18:25 -07:00
crypto
keys
linux sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code 2007-07-09 18:51:57 +02:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (5592): DMA: Correctly free resources on error, sync PCI streamed data 2007-05-09 10:12:42 -03:00
mtd
net [SCTP] Flag a pmtu change request 2007-06-13 20:44:42 +00:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2007-05-21 16:19:32 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.14 2007-05-31 11:03:27 +02:00
video atmel_lcdfb: AT91/AT32 LCD Controller framebuffer driver 2007-05-11 08:29:37 -07:00
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