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sched/fair: Revert max_newidle_lb_cost bump
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:01:20 +0000 (17:01 +0100)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:13:15 +0000 (17:13 +0100)
commitd206fbad9328ddb68ebabd7cf7413392acd38081
tree39de971309d0f5bf9ffc34ba5e6d03d5d03b8f15
parente837456fdca81899a3c8e47b3fd39e30eae6e291
sched/fair: Revert max_newidle_lb_cost bump

Many people reported regressions on their database workloads due to:

  155213a2aed4 ("sched/fair: Bump sd->max_newidle_lb_cost when newidle balance fails")

For instance Adam Li reported a 6% regression on SpecJBB.

Conversely this will regress schbench again; on my machine from 2.22
Mrps/s down to 2.04 Mrps/s.

Reported-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Adam Li <adamli@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reported-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Reported-by: Hazem Mohamed Abuelfotoh <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250626144017.1510594-2-clm@fb.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/006c9df2-b691-47f1-82e6-e233c3f91faf@oracle.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.406147760@infradead.org
kernel/sched/fair.c