linux-kernel - Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield

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Message-ID: <4D234E60.3010804@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:44:16 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
CC:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Avi Kiviti <avi@...hat.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

On 01/04/2011 11:41 AM, Hillf Danton wrote:

> /*                       !curr->sched_class->yield_to_task ||        */
>
>> +                       curr->sched_class != p->sched_class) {
>> +               goto out;
>> +       }
>> +
> 	/*
>           * ask scheduler to compute the next for successfully kicking
> @p onto its CPU
>           * what if p_rq is rt_class to do?
>           */
> 	next = pick_next_task(p_rq);
> 	if (next != p)
> 		p->se.vruntime = next->se.vruntime -1;
> 	deactivate_task(p_rq, p, 0);
> 	activate_task(p_rq, p, 0);
> 	if (rq == p_rq)
> 		schedule();
> 	else
> 		resched_task(p_rq->curr);
> 	yield = 0;

Wouldn't that break for FIFO and RR tasks?

There's a reason all the scheduler folks wanted a
per-class yield_to_task function :)

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