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DateThu, 7 Feb 2008 12:48:17 -0800
FromGreg KH <>
Subject[patch 41/45] sched: fix high wake up latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED
2.6.24-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
patch 296825cbe14d4c95ee9c41ca5824f7487bfb4d9d in mainline.

The reason why we are getting better wakeup latencies for
!FAIR_USER_SCHED is because of this snippet of code in place_entity():

	if (!initial) {
		/* sleeps upto a single latency don't count. */
		if (sched_feat(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS) && entity_is_task(se))
						     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
			vruntime -= sysctl_sched_latency;
		/* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */
		vruntime = max_vruntime(se->vruntime, vruntime);
	}
NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS feature gives credit for sleeping only to tasks and
not group-level entities. With the patch attached, I could see that
wakeup latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED are restored to the same level as
!FAIR_USER_SCHED.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 kernel/sched_fair.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, stru
 
 	if (!initial) {
 		/* sleeps upto a single latency don't count. */
-		if (sched_feat(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS) && entity_is_task(se))
+		if (sched_feat(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS))
 			vruntime -= sysctl_sched_latency;
 
 		/* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */
-- 


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