sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
The 'next_balance' field of 'nohz' idle balancer must be initialized to jiffies. Since jiffies is initialized to negative 300 seconds the 'nohz' idle balancer does not run for the first 300s (5mins) after bootup. If no new processes are spawed or no idle cycles happen, the load on the cpus will remain unbalanced for that duration. Signed-off-by:Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1DD7BFEDD3147247B1355BEFEFE4665237994F30EF@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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