ACK: [SRU][mantic:linux][PATCH 0/1] performance: Scheduler: Improve cache bouncing on tg->load_avg

[Jacob Martin]

Acked-by: Jacob Martin <jacob.martin at canonical.com>

On 2/27/24 8:07 AM, Philip Cox wrote:
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> 
> BugLink: BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2053251
> 
> SRU Justification:
> 
> [Impact]
> On high core count systems, the updating of the load average can happen so
> often that it impacts performance.
> 
> [Fix]
> Reduce the updating of the load average to at most once per millisecond.
> 
> 
> [Test Plan]
> I have tested this patch, as has Intel.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> The risk for regression is low as it is a fairly targetted change, and is just reducing the number
> of times that the load average is updated.
> 
> --
> 
> Aaron Lu (1):
>    sched/fair: Ratelimit update to tg->load_avg
> 
>   kernel/sched/fair.c  | 13 ++++++++++++-
>   kernel/sched/sched.h |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>