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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 0d8905a1b8ca..ad9d39b021f8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -604,9 +604,9 @@ struct rq {
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct rq, runqueues);
 
-static inline void check_preempt_curr(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
+static inline void check_preempt_curr(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
 {
-        rq->curr->sched_class->check_preempt_curr(rq, p);
+        rq->curr->sched_class->check_preempt_curr(rq, p, sync);
 }
 
 static inline int cpu_of(struct rq *rq)
@@ -2282,7 +2282,7 @@ out_running:
         trace_mark(kernel_sched_wakeup,
                 "pid %d state %ld ## rq %p task %p rq->curr %p",
                 p->pid, p->state, rq, p, rq->curr);
-        check_preempt_curr(rq, p);
+        check_preempt_curr(rq, p, sync);
 
         p->state = TASK_RUNNING;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags)
         trace_mark(kernel_sched_wakeup_new,
                 "pid %d state %ld ## rq %p task %p rq->curr %p",
                 p->pid, p->state, rq, p, rq->curr);
-        check_preempt_curr(rq, p);
+        check_preempt_curr(rq, p, 0);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
         if (p->sched_class->task_wake_up)
                 p->sched_class->task_wake_up(rq, p);
@@ -2877,7 +2877,7 @@ static void pull_task(struct rq *src_rq, struct task_struct *p,
          * Note that idle threads have a prio of MAX_PRIO, for this test
          * to be always true for them.
          */
-        check_preempt_curr(this_rq, p);
+        check_preempt_curr(this_rq, p, 0);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -6007,7 +6007,7 @@ static int __migrate_task(struct task_struct *p, int src_cpu, int dest_cpu)
         set_task_cpu(p, dest_cpu);
         if (on_rq) {
                 activate_task(rq_dest, p, 0);
-                check_preempt_curr(rq_dest, p);
+                check_preempt_curr(rq_dest, p, 0);
         }
 done:
         ret = 1;