sched: Push put_prev_task() into pick_next_task()

In order to avoid having to do put/set on a whole cgroup hierarchy
when we context switch, push the put into pick_next_task() so that
both operations are in the same function. Further changes then allow
us to possibly optimize away redundant work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index bb89991ee409..c534cf4181ab 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -1105,7 +1105,13 @@ struct sched_class {
 
         void (*check_preempt_curr) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags);
 
-        struct task_struct * (*pick_next_task) (struct rq *rq);
+        /*
+         * It is the responsibility of the pick_next_task() method that will
+         * return the next task to call put_prev_task() on the @prev task or
+         * something equivalent.
+         */
+        struct task_struct * (*pick_next_task) (struct rq *rq,
+                                                struct task_struct *prev);
         void (*put_prev_task) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP