sched/fair: Avoid redundant idle_cpu() call in update_sg_lb_stats()
authorWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:09:38 +0000 (14:09 -0500)
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:32:22 +0000 (15:02 +0530)
commit674d9a6b8286a49bc8e2f57a11ed81b2fa5d88bf
tree3d2be02e35923c645a6eb6c2b47a6f1b4d9f23fc
parentac6f9bad52a79154bebd1626344dfc206d1cbefe
sched/fair: Avoid redundant idle_cpu() call in update_sg_lb_stats()

Part of the responsibility of the update_sg_lb_stats() function is to
update the idle_cpus statistical counter in struct sg_lb_stats. This
check is done by calling idle_cpu(). The idle_cpu() function, in
turn, checks a number of fields within the run queue structure such
as rq->curr and rq->nr_running.

With the current layout of the run queue structure, rq->curr and
rq->nr_running are in separate cachelines. The rq->curr variable is
checked first followed by nr_running. As nr_running is also accessed
by update_sg_lb_stats() earlier, it makes no sense to load another
cacheline when nr_running is not 0 as idle_cpu() will always return
false in this case.

This patch eliminates this redundant cacheline load by checking the
cached nr_running before calling idle_cpu().

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448478580-26467-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit a426f99c91d1036767a7819aaaba6bd3191b7f06)
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
kernel/sched/fair.c