tree f846443fdf7888583b4b0ff0ddd0be1be4b37df6
parent 831451ac4e44d3a20b581ce726ef1d1144373f7d
author Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 1231933159 +0100
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1232017209 +0100

sched: prefer wakers

Prefer tasks that wake other tasks to preempt quickly. This improves
performance because more work is available sooner.

The workload that prompted this patch was a kernel build over NFS4 (for some
curious and not understood reason we had to revert commit:
18de9735300756e3ca9c361ef58409d8561dfe0d to make any progress at all)

Without this patch a make -j8 bzImage (of x86-64 defconfig) would take
3m30-ish, with this patch we're down to 2m50-ish.

psql-sysbench/mysql-sysbench show a slight improvement in peak performance as
well, tbench and vmark seemed to not care.

It is possible to improve upon the build time (to 2m20-ish) but that seriously
destroys other benchmarks (just shows that there's more room for tinkering).

Much thanks to Mike who put in a lot of effort to benchmark things and proved
a worthy opponent with a competing patch.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>