From: Mike Galbraith on

sched: tweak sched_latency and min_granularity

Allow LAST_BUDDY to kick in sooner, improving cache utilization as soon as
a second buddy pair arrives on scene. The cost is latency starting to climb
sooner, the tbenefit for tbench 8 on my Q6600 box is ~2%. No detrimental
effects noted in normal idesktop usage.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault(a)gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

---
kernel/sched_fair.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
* (to see the precise effective timeslice length of your workload,
* run vmstat and monitor the context-switches (cs) field)
*/
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;
-unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_latency = 5000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_latency = 6000000ULL;
+unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_latency = 6000000ULL;

/*
* The initial- and re-scaling of tunables is configurable
@@ -52,15 +52,15 @@ enum sched_tunable_scaling sysctl_sched_

/*
* Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
- * (default: 1 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
+ * (default: 2 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
*/
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;
-unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 1000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
+unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;

/*
* is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
*/
-static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 5;
+static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 3;

/*
* After fork, child runs first. If set to 0 (default) then


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