From 8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:08:29 +0100 Subject: sched: high-res preemption tick Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick. The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair' by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on. The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency. Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the sched_latency period is important. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 7907845..43e0339 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ extern void trap_init(void); extern void account_process_tick(struct task_struct *task, int user); extern void update_process_times(int user); extern void scheduler_tick(void); +extern void hrtick_resched(void); extern void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p); @@ -849,7 +850,7 @@ struct sched_class { #endif void (*set_curr_task) (struct rq *rq); - void (*task_tick) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p); + void (*task_tick) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int queued); void (*task_new) (struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p); void (*set_cpus_allowed)(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t *newmask); -- cgit v1.1