Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 956383844116..3b31fc05a0f1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3287,10 +3287,15 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct rq_flags *rf)
 	struct task_struct *p;
 
 	/*
-	 * Optimization: we know that if all tasks are in
-	 * the fair class we can call that function directly:
+	 * Optimization: we know that if all tasks are in the fair class we can
+	 * call that function directly, but only if the @prev task wasn't of a
+	 * higher scheduling class, because otherwise those loose the
+	 * opportunity to pull in more work from other CPUs.
 	 */
-	if (likely(rq->nr_running == rq->cfs.h_nr_running)) {
+	if (likely((prev->sched_class == &idle_sched_class ||
+		    prev->sched_class == &fair_sched_class) &&
+		   rq->nr_running == rq->cfs.h_nr_running)) {
+
 		p = fair_sched_class.pick_next_task(rq, prev, rf);
 		if (unlikely(p == RETRY_TASK))
 			goto again;