sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
Currently only implemented for fair class tasks.
Add a yield_to_task method() to the fair scheduling class. allowing the
caller of yield_to() to accelerate another thread in it's thread group,
task group.
Implemented via a scheduler hint, using cfs_rq->next to encourage the
target being selected. We can rely on pick_next_entity to keep things
fair, so noone can accelerate a thread that has already used its fair
share of CPU time.
This also means callers should only call yield_to when they really
mean it. Calling it too often can result in the scheduler just
ignoring the hint.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095051.4ddb7738@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index c0fbeb9..0270246 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1975,6 +1975,25 @@
set_skip_buddy(se);
}
+static bool yield_to_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
+{
+ struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
+
+ if (!se->on_rq)
+ return false;
+
+ /* Tell the scheduler that we'd really like pse to run next. */
+ set_next_buddy(se);
+
+ /* Make p's CPU reschedule; pick_next_entity takes care of fairness. */
+ if (preempt)
+ resched_task(rq->curr);
+
+ yield_task_fair(rq);
+
+ return true;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/**************************************************
* Fair scheduling class load-balancing methods:
@@ -4243,6 +4262,7 @@
.enqueue_task = enqueue_task_fair,
.dequeue_task = dequeue_task_fair,
.yield_task = yield_task_fair,
+ .yield_to_task = yield_to_task_fair,
.check_preempt_curr = check_preempt_wakeup,