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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2006-12-10 02:20:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-10 09:55:43 -0800
commit08c183f31bdbb709f177f6d3110d5f288ea33933 (patch)
treebe7b84c07f3b0bf29473bad2b7b788fa189f948e /include/linux/sched.h
parent1bd77f2da58e9cdd1f159217887343dadd9af417 (diff)
[PATCH] sched: add option to serialize load balancing
Large sched domains can be very expensive to scan. Add an option SD_SERIALIZE to the sched domain flags. If that flag is set then we make sure that no other such domain is being balanced. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 1208feab46e..ea92e5c8908 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -648,6 +648,7 @@ enum idle_type
#define SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER 128 /* Domain members share cpu power */
#define SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE 256 /* Balance for power savings */
#define SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES 512 /* Domain members share cpu pkg resources */
+#define SD_SERIALIZE 1024 /* Only a single load balancing instance */
#define BALANCE_FOR_MC_POWER \
(sched_smt_power_savings ? SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE : 0)