sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tue, 1 Feb 2011 14:51:03 +0000 (09:51 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:20:33 +0000 (14:20 +0100)
commitac53db596cc08ecb8040cfb6f71ae40c6f2041c4
treec263b558772213530532026af6fa9e34a8f88375
parent2c13c919d9e9a3db9896143a501f83dcbbe1ced4
sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()

Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair.  This
allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every
level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross
unfairness in CPU time distribution.

We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check
yield first, then last, then next.  We need next to be able
to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and
"yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree
of the CFS tree.  When they are, we need to go into that
sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct
entity once we get to the right level.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched.c
kernel/sched_debug.c
kernel/sched_fair.c
kernel/sysctl.c