The advantage is that vruntime based wakeup preemption has a better
conceptual model. Here wakeup_gran = 0 means: preempt when 'fair'.
Therefore wakeup_gran is the granularity of unfairness we allow in order
to make progress.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 kernel/sched_fair.c |   98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 92 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -143,6 +143,49 @@ static inline struct sched_entity *paren
 	return se->parent;
 }
 
+/* return depth at which a sched entity is present in the hierarchy */
+static inline int depth_se(struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+	int depth = 0;
+
+	for_each_sched_entity(se)
+		depth++;
+
+	return depth;
+}
+
+static void
+find_matching_se(struct sched_entity **se, struct sched_entity **pse)
+{
+	int se_depth, pse_depth;
+
+	/*
+	 * preemption test can be made between sibling entities who are in the
+	 * same cfs_rq i.e who have a common parent. Walk up the hierarchy of
+	 * both tasks until we find their ancestors who are siblings of common
+	 * parent.
+	 */
+
+	/* First walk up until both entities are at same depth */
+	se_depth = depth_se(*se);
+	pse_depth = depth_se(*pse);
+
+	while (se_depth > pse_depth) {
+		se_depth--;
+		*se = parent_entity(*se);
+	}
+
+	while (pse_depth > se_depth) {
+		pse_depth--;
+		*pse = parent_entity(*pse);
+	}
+
+	while (!is_same_group(*se, *pse)) {
+		*se = parent_entity(*se);
+		*pse = parent_entity(*pse);
+	}
+}
+
 #else	/* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
 
 static inline struct rq *rq_of(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
@@ -193,6 +236,11 @@ static inline struct sched_entity *paren
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static inline void
+find_matching_se(struct sched_entity **se, struct sched_entity **pse)
+{
+}
+
 #endif	/* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
 
 
@@ -1244,13 +1292,42 @@ static unsigned long wakeup_gran(struct 
 	 * More easily preempt - nice tasks, while not making it harder for
 	 * + nice tasks.
 	 */
-	if (sched_feat(ASYM_GRAN))
-		gran = calc_delta_mine(gran, NICE_0_LOAD, &se->load);
+	if (!sched_feat(ASYM_GRAN) || se->load.weight > NICE_0_LOAD)
+		gran = calc_delta_fair(sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity, se);
 
 	return gran;
 }
 
 /*
+ * Should 'se' preempt 'curr'.
+ *
+ *             |s1
+ *        |s2
+ *   |s3
+ *         g
+ *      |<--->|c
+ *
+ *  w(c, s1) = -1
+ *  w(c, s2) =  0
+ *  w(c, s3) =  1
+ *
+ */
+static int
+wakeup_preempt_entity(struct sched_entity *curr, struct sched_entity *se)
+{
+	s64 gran, vdiff = curr->vruntime - se->vruntime;
+
+	if (vdiff <= 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	gran = wakeup_gran(curr);
+	if (vdiff > gran)
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
  * Preempt the current task with a newly woken task if needed:
  */
 static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sync)
@@ -1258,7 +1335,6 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct 
 	struct task_struct *curr = rq->curr;
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = task_cfs_rq(curr);
 	struct sched_entity *se = &curr->se, *pse = &p->se;
-	s64 delta_exec;
 
 	if (unlikely(rt_prio(p->prio))) {
 		update_rq_clock(rq);
@@ -1296,9 +1372,19 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct 
 		return;
 	}
 
-	delta_exec = se->sum_exec_runtime - se->prev_sum_exec_runtime;
-	if (delta_exec > wakeup_gran(pse))
-		resched_task(curr);
+	find_matching_se(&se, &pse);
+
+	while (se) {
+		BUG_ON(!pse);
+
+		if (wakeup_preempt_entity(se, pse) == 1) {
+			resched_task(curr);
+			break;
+		}
+
+		se = parent_entity(se);
+		pse = parent_entity(pse);
+	}
 }
 
 static struct task_struct *pick_next_task_fair(struct rq *rq)

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