From 15afe09bf496ae10c989e1a375a6b5da7bd3e16e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:38:02 +0200 Subject: sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4. The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness, which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective cache trashing. Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule back to it - saving a wakeup. Reported-by: Lin Ming Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched_idletask.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched_idletask.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched_idletask.c b/kernel/sched_idletask.c index 3a4f92dbbe66..dec4ccabe2f5 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_idletask.c +++ b/kernel/sched_idletask.c @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ static int select_task_rq_idle(struct task_struct *p, int sync) /* * Idle tasks are unconditionally rescheduled: */ -static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p) +static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sync) { resched_task(rq->idle); } @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void switched_to_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, if (running) resched_task(rq->curr); else - check_preempt_curr(rq, p); + check_preempt_curr(rq, p, 0); } static void prio_changed_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static void prio_changed_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, if (p->prio > oldprio) resched_task(rq->curr); } else - check_preempt_curr(rq, p); + check_preempt_curr(rq, p, 0); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3