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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 4e9fad271c30..c88b3bfbd09e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@ struct sched_class {
         void (*enqueue_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
         void (*dequeue_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
         void (*yield_task) (struct rq *rq);
+        bool (*yield_to_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, bool preempt);
 
         void (*check_preempt_curr) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
 
@@ -1972,6 +1973,7 @@ static inline int rt_mutex_getprio(struct task_struct *p)
 # define rt_mutex_adjust_pi(p)          do { } while (0)
 #endif
 
+extern bool yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt);
 extern void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice);
 extern int task_prio(const struct task_struct *p);
 extern int task_nice(const struct task_struct *p);