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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-01-15 14:53:38 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-02-20 14:40:20 -0800
commitdf94b12439ca449a852e579fc2952dac80f70c90 (patch)
treef9912dc93377361a20bc05a76ccb904c70e48804 /kernel
parent2cf155b300c4839a7238b825c7c5f417e9d7cc68 (diff)
sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolation
commit 6bc912b71b6f33b041cfde93ca3f019cbaa852bc upstream. Stronger SCHED_IDLE isolation: - no SCHED_IDLE buddies - never let SCHED_IDLE preempt on wakeup - always preempt SCHED_IDLE on wakeup - limit SLEEPER fairness for SCHED_IDLE. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_fair.c30
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 06a68c4b0db..c91973d8b37 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -681,9 +681,13 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int initial)
unsigned long thresh = sysctl_sched_latency;
/*
- * convert the sleeper threshold into virtual time
+ * Convert the sleeper threshold into virtual time.
+ * SCHED_IDLE is a special sub-class. We care about
+ * fairness only relative to other SCHED_IDLE tasks,
+ * all of which have the same weight.
*/
- if (sched_feat(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER))
+ if (sched_feat(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER) &&
+ task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_IDLE)
thresh = calc_delta_fair(thresh, se);
vruntime -= thresh;
@@ -1328,14 +1332,18 @@ wakeup_preempt_entity(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
static void set_last_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
{
- for_each_sched_entity(se)
- cfs_rq_of(se)->last = se;
+ if (likely(task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_IDLE)) {
+ for_each_sched_entity(se)
+ cfs_rq_of(se)->last = se;
+ }
}
static void set_next_buddy(struct sched_entity *se)
{
- for_each_sched_entity(se)
- cfs_rq_of(se)->next = se;
+ if (likely(task_of(se)->policy != SCHED_IDLE)) {
+ for_each_sched_entity(se)
+ cfs_rq_of(se)->next = se;
+ }
}
/*
@@ -1382,12 +1390,18 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
return;
/*
- * Batch tasks do not preempt (their preemption is driven by
+ * Batch and idle tasks do not preempt (their preemption is driven by
* the tick):
*/
- if (unlikely(p->policy == SCHED_BATCH))
+ if (unlikely(p->policy != SCHED_NORMAL))
return;
+ /* Idle tasks are by definition preempted by everybody. */
+ if (unlikely(curr->policy == SCHED_IDLE)) {
+ resched_task(curr);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT))
return;