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fix a thread preemption regression in schedulers introduced in r270423

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fix a thread preemption regression in schedulers introduced in r270423

Commit r270423 fixed a regression in sched_yield() that was introduced
in earlier changes. Unfortunately, at the same time it introduced an
new regression. The problem is that SWT_RELINQUISH (6), like all other
SWT_* constants and unlike SW_* flags, is not a bit flag. So, (flags &
SWT_RELINQUISH) is true in cases where that was not really indended,
for example, with SWT_OWEPREEMPT (2) and SWT_REMOTEPREEMPT (11).

A straight forward fix would be to use (flags & SW_TYPE_MASK) ==
SWT_RELINQUISH, but my impression is that the switch types are designed
mostly for gathering statistics, not for influencing scheduling
decisions.

So, I decided that it would be better to check for SW_PREEMPT flag
instead. That's also the same flag that was checked before r239157.
I double-checked how that flag is used and I am confident that the flag
is set only in the places where we really have the preemption:

  • critical_exit + td_owepreempt
  • sched_preempt in the ULE scheduler
  • sched_preempt in the 4BSD scheduler

Reviewed by: kib, mav
MFC after: 4 days
Sponsored by: Panzura
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9230

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