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r: 288741
b: refs/heads/master
c: 4ec4412
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  288739: a809265
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 39be350127ec60a078edffe5b4915dafba4ba514
+refs/heads/master: 4ec4412e1e91f44a3dcb97b6c9172a13fc78bac9

trunk/include/linux/sched.h

@@ -905,6 +905,7 @@ struct sched_group_power {
 	 * single CPU.
 	 */
 	unsigned int power, power_orig;
+	unsigned long next_update;
 	/*
 	 * Number of busy cpus in this group.
 	 */

trunk/kernel/sched/fair.c

@@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ calc_delta_mine(unsigned long delta_exec, unsigned long weight,
 
 const struct sched_class fair_sched_class;
 
+static unsigned long __read_mostly max_load_balance_interval = HZ/10;
+
 /**************************************************************
  * CFS operations on generic schedulable entities:
  */
@@ -3776,6 +3778,11 @@ void update_group_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
 	struct sched_domain *child = sd->child;
 	struct sched_group *group, *sdg = sd->groups;
 	unsigned long power;
+	unsigned long interval;
+
+	interval = msecs_to_jiffies(sd->balance_interval);
+	interval = clamp(interval, 1UL, max_load_balance_interval);
+	sdg->sgp->next_update = jiffies + interval;
 
 	if (!child) {
 		update_cpu_power(sd, cpu);
@@ -3883,12 +3890,15 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct sched_domain *sd,
 	 * domains. In the newly idle case, we will allow all the cpu's
 	 * to do the newly idle load balance.
 	 */
-	if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && local_group) {
-		if (balance_cpu != this_cpu) {
-			*balance = 0;
-			return;
-		}
-		update_group_power(sd, this_cpu);
+	if (local_group) {
+		if (idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE) {
+			if (balance_cpu != this_cpu) {
+				*balance = 0;
+				return;
+			}
+			update_group_power(sd, this_cpu);
+		} else if (time_after_eq(jiffies, group->sgp->next_update))
+			update_group_power(sd, this_cpu);
 	}
 
 	/* Adjust by relative CPU power of the group */
@@ -4945,8 +4955,6 @@ static int __cpuinit sched_ilb_notifier(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(balancing);
 
-static unsigned long __read_mostly max_load_balance_interval = HZ/10;
-
 /*
  * Scale the max load_balance interval with the number of CPUs in the system.
  * This trades load-balance latency on larger machines for less cross talk.