From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:31:31 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~652^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ad4b78bbcbab66998b05d422ac6106b645796e54;p=pandora-kernel.git

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: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
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