sched: release buddies on yield
Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them
despite them being placed right-most.
This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 51aa3e1..98345e4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -716,6 +716,15 @@
__enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
}
+static void clear_buddies(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+ if (cfs_rq->last == se)
+ cfs_rq->last = NULL;
+
+ if (cfs_rq->next == se)
+ cfs_rq->next = NULL;
+}
+
static void
dequeue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int sleep)
{
@@ -738,11 +747,7 @@
#endif
}
- if (cfs_rq->last == se)
- cfs_rq->last = NULL;
-
- if (cfs_rq->next == se)
- cfs_rq->next = NULL;
+ clear_buddies(cfs_rq, se);
if (se != cfs_rq->curr)
__dequeue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
@@ -977,6 +982,8 @@
if (unlikely(cfs_rq->nr_running == 1))
return;
+ clear_buddies(cfs_rq, se);
+
if (likely(!sysctl_sched_compat_yield) && curr->policy != SCHED_BATCH) {
update_rq_clock(rq);
/*
