On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 03:03 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > From: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> > > Currently only implemented for fair class tasks. > > Add a yield_to_task method() to the fair scheduling class. allowing the > caller of yield_to() to accelerate another thread in it's thread group, > task group. > > Implemented via a scheduler hint, using cfs_rq->next to encourage the > target being selected. We can rely on pick_next_entity to keep things > fair, so noone can accelerate a thread that has already used its fair > share of CPU time. > > This also means callers should only call yield_to when they really > mean it. Calling it too often can result in the scheduler just > ignoring the hint. > > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Looks good to me, do you want me to merge this or will you merge it through the kvm tree with all other patches? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
