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, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched_idletask.c b/kernel/sched_idletask.c
index 3a4f92dbbe66..dec4ccabe2f5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_idletask.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_idletask.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ static int select_task_rq_idle(struct task_struct *p, int sync)
 /*
  * Idle tasks are unconditionally rescheduled:
  */
-static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
+static void check_preempt_curr_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
 {
         resched_task(rq->idle);
 }
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void switched_to_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
         if (running)
                 resched_task(rq->curr);
         else
-                check_preempt_curr(rq, p);
+                check_preempt_curr(rq, p, 0);
 }
 
 static void prio_changed_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static void prio_changed_idle(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p,
                 if (p->prio > oldprio)
                         resched_task(rq->curr);
         } else
-                check_preempt_curr(rq, p);
+                check_preempt_curr(rq, p, 0);
 }
 
 /*