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[PATCH] sched: multilevel sbe sbf
authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:26 +0000 (14:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:24:43 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
commit3dbd5342074a1e570ec84edf859deb9be588006d
treea5f0aa3f4152b409d9b109766f55020c28bbb9af
parent245af2c7870bd5940f7bfad19a0a03b32751fbc5
[PATCH] sched: multilevel sbe sbf

The fundamental problem that Suresh has with balance on exec and fork is that
it only tries to balance the top level domain with the flag set.

This was worked around by removing degenerate domains, but is still a problem
if people want to start using more complex sched-domains, especially
multilevel NUMA that ia64 is already using.

This patch makes balance on fork and exec try balancing over not just the top
most domain with the flag set, but all the way down the domain tree.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/sched.c