Commit a200d8e4 authored Jul 24, 2011 by Anton Blanchard Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt Sep 20, 2011

powerpc/numa: Enable SD_WAKE_AFFINE in node definition



When chasing a performance issue on ppc64, I noticed tasks
communicating via a pipe would often end up on different nodes.

It turns out SD_WAKE_AFFINE is not set in our node defition. Commit
9fcd18c9 (sched: re-tune balancing) enabled SD_WAKE_AFFINE
in the node definition for x86 and we need a similar change for
ppc64.

I used lmbench lat_ctx and perf bench pipe to verify this fix. Each
benchmark was run 10 times and the average taken.

lmbench lat_ctx:

before:  66565 ops/sec
after:  204700 ops/sec

3.1x faster

perf bench pipe:

before: 5.6570 usecs
after:  1.3470 usecs

4.2x faster

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

parent 1cce058b

arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h

+1 −1

Original line number	Original line	Diff line number	Diff line
	@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static inline int pcibus_to_node(struct pci_bus *bus)
	\| 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC \		\| 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC \
	\| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \		\| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \
	\| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE \		\| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE \
	\| 0*SD_WAKE_AFFINE \		\| 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE \
	\| 0*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \		\| 0*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \
	\| 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER \		\| 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER \
	\| 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE \		\| 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE \