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[SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.
authorKrzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:03:43 +0000 (22:03 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:03:43 +0000 (22:03 -0700)
This patch sets the max_cache_size value required to tune up
scheduler in SMP systems. Otherwise, the calculated
migration_cost is too high and task scheduling may lock up.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
arch/sparc/kernel/smp.c

index a93f5da6855d58b1164ae734c9f5d2991ebbf8c1..40b42c88e6a7876c09598e93d30df54def747338 100644 (file)
@@ -69,6 +69,17 @@ void __init smp_store_cpu_info(int id)
                                                     "clock-frequency", 0);
        cpu_data(id).prom_node = cpu_node;
        cpu_data(id).mid = cpu_get_hwmid(cpu_node);
+
+       /* this is required to tune the scheduler correctly */
+       /* is it possible to have CPUs with different cache sizes? */
+       if (id == boot_cpu_id) {
+               int cache_line,cache_nlines;
+               cache_line = 0x20;
+               cache_line = prom_getintdefault(cpu_node, "ecache-line-size", cache_line);
+               cache_nlines = 0x8000;
+               cache_nlines = prom_getintdefault(cpu_node, "ecache-nlines", cache_nlines);
+               max_cache_size = cache_line * cache_nlines;
+       }
        if (cpu_data(id).mid < 0)
                panic("No MID found for CPU%d at node 0x%08d", id, cpu_node);
 }