tree 6e673d3b27f6150dd2723d773a8704657e5bb261
parent 6aba74f2791287ec407e0f92487a725a25908067
author Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> 1300971618 +0100
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1301569234 +0200

sched: Leave sched_setscheduler() earlier if possible, do not disturb SCHED_FIFO tasks

sched_setscheduler() (in sched.c) is called in order of changing the
scheduling policy and/or the real-time priority of a task. Thus,
if we find out that neither of those are actually being modified, it
is possible to return earlier and save the overhead of a full
deactivate+activate cycle of the task in question.

Beside that, if we have more than one SCHED_FIFO task with the same
priority on the same rq (which means they share the same priority queue)
having one of them changing its position in the priority queue because of
a sched_setscheduler (as it happens by means of the deactivate+activate)
that does not actually change the priority violates POSIX which states,
for SCHED_FIFO:

  "If a thread whose policy or priority has been modified by
   pthread_setschedprio() is a running thread or is runnable, the effect on
   its position in the thread list depends on the direction of the
   modification, as follows: a. <...> b. If the priority is unchanged, the
   thread does not change position in the thread list. c. <...>"

     http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_08.html

 (ed: And the POSIX specification here does, briefly and somewhat unexpectedly,
      match what common sense tells us as well. )

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1300971618.3960.82.camel@Palantir>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>