sched: clear buddies more aggressively

It was noticed that a task could get re-elected past its run quota due to buddy affinities. This could increase latency a little. Cure it by more aggresively clearing buddy state. We do so in two situations: - when we force preempt - when we select a buddy to run Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
ambv · Feb 1, 2009 · a9f3e2b · a9f3e2b
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diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -768,8 +768,14 @@ check_preempt_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
 
 	ideal_runtime = sched_slice(cfs_rq, curr);
 	delta_exec = curr->sum_exec_runtime - curr->prev_sum_exec_runtime;
-	if (delta_exec > ideal_runtime)
+	if (delta_exec > ideal_runtime) {
 		resched_task(rq_of(cfs_rq)->curr);
+		/*
+		 * The current task ran long enough, ensure it doesn't get
+		 * re-elected due to buddy favours.
+		 */
+		clear_buddies(cfs_rq, curr);
+	}
 }
 
 static void
@@ -1445,6 +1451,11 @@ static struct task_struct *pick_next_task_fair(struct rq *rq)
 
 	do {
 		se = pick_next_entity(cfs_rq);
+		/*
+		 * If se was a buddy, clear it so that it will have to earn
+		 * the favour again.
+		 */
+		clear_buddies(cfs_rq, se);
 		set_next_entity(cfs_rq, se);
 		cfs_rq = group_cfs_rq(se);
 	} while (cfs_rq);