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| author | Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> | 2006-03-31 02:31:29 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-31 12:18:59 -0800 |
| commit | d425b274ba83ba4e7746a40446ec0ba3267de51f (patch) | |
| tree | 73d3342be7ba8ef8d18a8c3cc9fea6e026e2bffa | |
| parent | 7c4bb1f9b3788309e1159961c606ba0bdf7ed382 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d425b274ba83ba4e7746a40446ec0ba3267de51f.tar.gz lwn-d425b274ba83ba4e7746a40446ec0ba3267de51f.zip | |
[PATCH] sched: activate SCHED BATCH expired
To increase the strength of SCHED_BATCH as a scheduling hint we can
activate batch tasks on the expired array since by definition they are
latency insensitive tasks.
Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index c4fd3fcd3feb..78c40dd2e19a 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ struct signal_struct { #define MAX_PRIO (MAX_RT_PRIO + 40) #define rt_task(p) (unlikely((p)->prio < MAX_RT_PRIO)) +#define batch_task(p) (unlikely((p)->policy == SCHED_BATCH)) /* * Some day this will be a full-fledged user tracking system.. diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 73bb4d9ef989..dd153d6f8a04 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -667,9 +667,13 @@ static int effective_prio(task_t *p) /* * __activate_task - move a task to the runqueue. */ -static inline void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq) +static void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq) { - enqueue_task(p, rq->active); + prio_array_t *target = rq->active; + + if (batch_task(p)) + target = rq->expired; + enqueue_task(p, target); rq->nr_running++; } @@ -688,7 +692,7 @@ static int recalc_task_prio(task_t *p, unsigned long long now) unsigned long long __sleep_time = now - p->timestamp; unsigned long sleep_time; - if (unlikely(p->policy == SCHED_BATCH)) + if (batch_task(p)) sleep_time = 0; else { if (__sleep_time > NS_MAX_SLEEP_AVG) |