From ef8002f6848236de5adc613063ebeabddea8a6fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikhil Rao Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:09:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot This patch adds a check in task_hot to return if the task has SCHED_IDLE policy. SCHED_IDLE tasks have very low weight, and when run with regular workloads, are typically scheduled many milliseconds apart. There is no need to consider these tasks hot for load balancing. Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1287173550-30365-2-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 728081a7ef1c..771b518e5f1f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -2025,6 +2025,9 @@ task_hot(struct task_struct *p, u64 now, struct sched_domain *sd) if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class) return 0; + if (unlikely(p->policy == SCHED_IDLE)) + return 0; + /* * Buddy candidates are cache hot: */ -- 2.20.1