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Commit 93824900 authored by Uladzislau Rezki's avatar Uladzislau Rezki Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched/fair: Search a task from the tail of the queue



As a first step this patch makes cfs_tasks list as MRU one.
It means, that when a next task is picked to run on physical
CPU it is moved to the front of the list.

Therefore, the cfs_tasks list is more or less sorted (except
woken tasks) starting from recently given CPU time tasks toward
tasks with max wait time in a run-queue, i.e. MRU list.

Second, as part of the load balance operation, this approach
starts detach_tasks()/detach_one_task() from the tail of the
queue instead of the head, giving some advantages:

 - tends to pick a task with highest wait time;

 - tasks located in the tail are less likely cache-hot,
   therefore the can_migrate_task() decision is higher.

hackbench illustrates slightly better performance. For example
doing 1000 samples and 40 groups on i5-3320M CPU, it shows below
figures:

 default: 0.657 avg
 patched: 0.646 avg

Signed-off-by: default avatarUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170913102430.8985-2-urezki@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 051f3ca0
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