sched: Add smt_gain
The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work
capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a
static gain for threads.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 651dded..9c81c92 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -921,6 +921,7 @@
unsigned int newidle_idx;
unsigned int wake_idx;
unsigned int forkexec_idx;
+ unsigned int smt_gain;
int flags; /* See SD_* */
enum sched_domain_level level;
diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
index 7402c1a..6203ae5 100644
--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@
| SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER, \
.last_balance = jiffies, \
.balance_interval = 1, \
+ .smt_gain = 1178, /* 15% */ \
}
#endif
#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_SMT */