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sched: Fix signed unsigned comparison in check_preempt_tick()

Signed unsigned comparison may lead to superfluous resched if leftmost
is right of the current task, wasting a few cycles, and inadvertently
_lengthening_ the current task's slice.

Reported-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294202477.9384.5.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mike Galbraith 14 years ago
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      kernel/sched_fair.c

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kernel/sched_fair.c

@@ -1062,6 +1062,9 @@ check_preempt_tick(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *curr)
 		struct sched_entity *se = __pick_next_entity(cfs_rq);
 		s64 delta = curr->vruntime - se->vruntime;
 
+		if (delta < 0)
+			return;
+
 		if (delta > ideal_runtime)
 			resched_task(rq_of(cfs_rq)->curr);
 	}