• Jupyung Lee's avatar
    sched: Move update_curr() in check_preempt_wakeup() to avoid redundant call · a65ac745
    Jupyung Lee authored
    If a RT task is woken up while a non-RT task is running,
    check_preempt_wakeup() is called to check whether the new task can
    preempt the old task. The function returns quickly without going deeper
    because it is apparent that a RT task can always preempt a non-RT task.
    
    In this situation, check_preempt_wakeup() always calls update_curr() to
    update vruntime value of the currently running task. However, the
    function call is unnecessary and redundant at that moment because (1) a
    non-RT task can always be preempted by a RT task regardless of its
    vruntime value, and (2) update_curr() will be called shortly when the
    context switch between two occurs.
    
    By moving update_curr() in check_preempt_wakeup(), we can avoid
    redundant call to update_curr(), slightly reducing the time taken to
    wake up RT tasks.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJupyung Lee <jupyung@gmail.com>
    [ Place update_curr() right before the wake_preempt_entity() call, which
      is the only thing that relies on the updated vruntime ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    LKML-Reference: <1258451500-6714-1-git-send-email-jupyung@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    a65ac745
sched_fair.c 49.1 KB