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authorCon Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>2006-03-31 02:31:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-31 12:18:59 -0800
commitd425b274ba83ba4e7746a40446ec0ba3267de51f (patch)
tree73d3342be7ba8ef8d18a8c3cc9fea6e026e2bffa /kernel/sched.c
parent7c4bb1f9b3788309e1159961c606ba0bdf7ed382 (diff)
[PATCH] sched: activate SCHED BATCH expired
To increase the strength of SCHED_BATCH as a scheduling hint we can activate batch tasks on the expired array since by definition they are latency insensitive tasks. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 73bb4d9ef98..dd153d6f8a0 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -667,9 +667,13 @@ static int effective_prio(task_t *p)
/*
* __activate_task - move a task to the runqueue.
*/
-static inline void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
+static void __activate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq)
{
- enqueue_task(p, rq->active);
+ prio_array_t *target = rq->active;
+
+ if (batch_task(p))
+ target = rq->expired;
+ enqueue_task(p, target);
rq->nr_running++;
}
@@ -688,7 +692,7 @@ static int recalc_task_prio(task_t *p, unsigned long long now)
unsigned long long __sleep_time = now - p->timestamp;
unsigned long sleep_time;
- if (unlikely(p->policy == SCHED_BATCH))
+ if (batch_task(p))
sleep_time = 0;
else {
if (__sleep_time > NS_MAX_SLEEP_AVG)