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authorVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>2015-02-27 15:54:09 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-03-27 08:36:02 (GMT)
commitca6d75e6908efbc350d536e0b496ebdac36b20d2 (patch)
treee2e5c20604a6348678176a8f35755489d390a56a /kernel/sched/sched.h
parentb5b4860d1d61ddc5308c7d492cbeaa3a6e508d7f (diff)
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sched: Add struct rq::cpu_capacity_orig
This new field 'cpu_capacity_orig' reflects the original capacity of a CPU before being altered by rt tasks and/or IRQ The cpu_capacity_orig will be used: - to detect when the capacity of a CPU has been noticeably reduced so we can trig load balance to look for a CPU with better capacity. As an example, we can detect when a CPU handles a significant amount of irq (with CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) but this CPU is seen as an idle CPU by scheduler whereas CPUs, which are really idle, are available. - evaluate the available capacity for CFS tasks Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425052454-25797-7-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 3600002..be56dfd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ struct rq {
struct sched_domain *sd;
unsigned long cpu_capacity;
+ unsigned long cpu_capacity_orig;
unsigned char idle_balance;
/* For active balancing */