[LUCID][PATCH] fix performance regression for SMT and MC

Yingying Zhao yingying.zhao at linux.intel.com
Fri Mar 5 06:48:21 UTC 2010


There're two patches need to get backported to Lucid which address scheduler
regression for SMT and MC.

Both of them are in mainline now and also copied to stable tree:

SMT fix:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9000f05c6d1607f79c0deacf42b09693be673f4c
commit 9000f05c6d1607f79c0deacf42b09693be673f4c
Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha at intel.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 12 17:14:22 2010 -0800

    sched: Fix SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest_queue()

MC fix:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dd5feea14a7de4edbd9f36db1a2db785de91b88d
commit dd5feea14a7de4edbd9f36db1a2db785de91b88d
Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha at intel.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 23 16:13:52 2010 -0800

    sched: Fix SCHED_MC regression caused by change in sched cpu_power

These patches are critical for SMT and MC performance, please consider to pick
up for Lucid.

Thanks
Yingying





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