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-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c29
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
index 346f27f4c79f..b4e6f32de453 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1130,34 +1130,15 @@ exit:
}
#endif
-static void smp_tune_scheduling (void)
+static void smp_tune_scheduling(void)
{
unsigned long cachesize; /* kB */
- unsigned long bandwidth = 350; /* MB/s */
- /*
- * Rough estimation for SMP scheduling, this is the number of
- * cycles it takes for a fully memory-limited process to flush
- * the SMP-local cache.
- *
- * (For a P5 this pretty much means we will choose another idle
- * CPU almost always at wakeup time (this is due to the small
- * L1 cache), on PIIs it's around 50-100 usecs, depending on
- * the cache size)
- */
- if (!cpu_khz) {
- /*
- * this basically disables processor-affinity
- * scheduling on SMP without a TSC.
- */
- return;
- } else {
+ if (cpu_khz) {
cachesize = boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_size;
- if (cachesize == -1) {
- cachesize = 16; /* Pentiums, 2x8kB cache */
- bandwidth = 100;
- }
- max_cache_size = cachesize * 1024;
+
+ if (cachesize > 0)
+ max_cache_size = cachesize * 1024;
}
}