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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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110201095051.4ddb7738@annuminas.surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
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