sched: backward looking buddy

Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling

Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to
schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its
going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have
cache hot benefits.

This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the
pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we
would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache.

This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that
in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it
can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to
producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and
reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern.

The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us
up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption
that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around
barring current.

This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted.

In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran
ahead of the pack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e8819bc6f46..82cc839c921 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ struct cfs_rq {
 	 * 'curr' points to currently running entity on this cfs_rq.
 	 * It is set to NULL otherwise (i.e when none are currently running).
 	 */
-	struct sched_entity *curr, *next;
+	struct sched_entity *curr, *next, *last;
 
 	unsigned long nr_spread_over;
 
@@ -1805,7 +1805,9 @@ task_hot(struct task_struct *p, u64 now, struct sched_domain *sd)
 	/*
 	 * Buddy candidates are cache hot:
 	 */
-	if (sched_feat(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY) && (&p->se == cfs_rq_of(&p->se)->next))
+	if (sched_feat(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY) &&
+			(&p->se == cfs_rq_of(&p->se)->next ||
+			 &p->se == cfs_rq_of(&p->se)->last))
 		return 1;
 
 	if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)