Wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot - this makes it a bit harder for the load-balancer to tear them apart. (but it's still possible, if the load is sufficiently assymetric) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
@@ -1396,6 +1396,12 @@ task_hot(struct task_struct *p, u64 now, struct sched_domain *sd)
{
s64 delta;
+ /*
+ * Buddy candidates are cache hot:
+ */
+ if (&p->se == cfs_rq_of(&p->se)->next)
+ return 1;
+
if (p->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
return 0;