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Commit ad4b78bb authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING



Create a new wakeup preemption mode, preempt towards tasks that run
shorter on avg. It sets next buddy to be sure we actually run the task
we preempted for.

Test results:

 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [1] 6537
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [2] 6538
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [3] 6539
 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done &
 [4] 6540

 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4
 Entries: 48 (clients=4)

 Averages:
 ------------------------------
        Max          4750 usec
        Avg           497 usec
        Stdev         737 usec

 root@twins:/home/peter# echo WAKEUP_RUNNING > /debug/sched_features

 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4
 Entries: 48 (clients=4)

 Averages:
 ------------------------------
        Max            14 usec
        Avg             5 usec
        Stdev           3 usec

Disabled by default - needs more testing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
parent eb24073b
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