From 799e2205ec65e174f752b558c62a92c4752df313 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:16:40 +0200
Subject: sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains

Yanmin reported that both tbench and hackbench were significantly
hurt by trying to keep tasks local on these domains, esp on small
cache machines.

So disable it in order to promote spreading outside of the cache
domains.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1255083400.8802.15.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'arch/x86')

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
index 25a92842dd99..d823c245f63b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ extern unsigned long node_remap_size[];
 				| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK			\
 				| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE			\
 				| 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE			\
+				| 1*SD_PREFER_LOCAL			\
 				| 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER			\
 				| 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE		\
 				| 0*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES		\
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