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sched: pre-route RT tasks on wakeup
authorGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:08:10 +0000 (21:08 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:08:10 +0000 (21:08 +0100)
commitc3f9e1716891302f369154d12c8ea53c045fc920
tree94eb9b03fc51033e87bc222861a5906233abae67
parent291e0c0eae7e5844ae6d421fb17b92e6c8c794a6
sched: pre-route RT tasks on wakeup

In the original patch series that Steven Rostedt and I worked on together,
we both took different approaches to low-priority wakeup path.  I utilized
"pre-routing" (push the task away to a less important RQ before activating)
approach, while Steve utilized a "post-routing" approach.  The advantage of
my approach is that you avoid the overhead of a wasted activate/deactivate
cycle and peripherally related burdens.  The advantage of Steve's method is
that it neatly solves an issue preventing a "pull" optimization from being
deployed.

In the end, we ended up deploying Steve's idea.  But it later dawned on me
that we could get the best of both worlds by deploying both ideas together,
albeit slightly modified.

The idea is simple:  Use a "light-weight" lookup for pre-routing, since we
only need to approximate a good home for the task.  And we also retain the
post-routing push logic to clean up any inaccuracies caused by a condition
of "priority mistargeting" caused by the lightweight lookup.  Most of the
time, the pre-routing should work and yield lower overhead.  In the cases
where it doesnt, the post-router will bat cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched_rt.c