sched: wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:10:34 +0000 (17:10 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:27:53 +0000 (04:27 +0100)
Wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot - this makes it a bit harder
for the load-balancer to tear them apart. (but it's still possible,
if the load is sufficiently assymetric)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched.c

index adbd475..3f7c5eb 100644 (file)
@@ -1396,6 +1396,12 @@ task_hot(struct task_struct *p, u64 now, struct sched_domain *sd)
 {
        s64 delta;
 
+       /*
+        * Buddy candidates are cache hot:
+        */
+       if (&p->se == cfs_rq_of(&p->se)->next)
+               return 1;
+
        if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
                return 0;