Re: [PATCH] sched: release buddies on yield

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 11 2008 - 05:58:23 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them
> despite them being placed right-most.
>
> This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched_fair.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

applied to tip/sched/urgent, thanks guys!

Ingo
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