sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.
The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.
Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b3b7a8f..d8e699b 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@
void (*yield_task) (struct rq *rq);
int (*select_task_rq)(struct task_struct *p, int sync);
- void (*check_preempt_curr) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p);
+ void (*check_preempt_curr) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sync);
struct task_struct * (*pick_next_task) (struct rq *rq);
void (*put_prev_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p);