do wakeup-balancing only if the wakeup-CPU (or any of its siblings) is idle. this prevents excessive wakeup-balancing while the system is highly loaded, but helps spread out the workload on partly idle systems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar kernel/sched.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+) Index: linux/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux/kernel/sched.c @@ -1253,7 +1253,13 @@ static int try_to_wake_up(task_t *p, uns if (unlikely(task_running(rq, p))) goto out_activate; + /* + * Only do wakeup-balancing (== potentially migrate the task) + * if this CPU (or any SMT sibling) is idle: + */ new_cpu = cpu; + if (!idle_cpu(this_cpu) && this_cpu == wake_idle(this_cpu, p)) + goto out_set_cpu; schedstat_inc(rq, ttwu_cnt); if (cpu == this_cpu) {