sched: Disable energy-unfriendly nohz kicks
authorMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Tue, 3 Feb 2015 13:54:11 +0000 (13:54 +0000)
committerPunit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:34:30 +0000 (12:34 +0000)
commitc6110ac05befce0b5e4bfb23b41b13140f4d6bc8
treeb18068c16f2ad09dc8211bff9e49ecebf5f9ff46
parent298ee11fae708706e9c3bc9e8ae53bd2f7e2a0c2
sched: Disable energy-unfriendly nohz kicks

With energy-aware scheduling enabled nohz_kick_needed() generates many
nohz idle-balance kicks which lead to nothing when multiple tasks get
packed on a single cpu to save energy. This causes unnecessary wake-ups
and hence wastes energy. Make these conditions depend on !energy_aware()
for now until the energy-aware nohz story gets sorted out.

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
kernel/sched/fair.c