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[PATCH v2 03/13] sched/fair: Optimize find_idlest_cpu() when there is no choice

From Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH v2 03/13] sched/fair: Optimize find_idlest_cpu() when there is no choice
Date 2016-06-22 19:10 +0200
Message-ID <rMTP4-6im-31@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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In the current find_idlest_group()/find_idlest_cpu() search we end up
calling find_idlest_cpu() in a sched_group containing only one cpu in
the end. Checking idle-states becomes pointless when there is no
alternative, so bail out instead.

cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index eec8e29104f9..216db302e87d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5123,6 +5123,10 @@ find_idlest_cpu(struct sched_group *group, struct task_struct *p, int this_cpu)
 	int shallowest_idle_cpu = -1;
 	int i;
 
+	/* Check if we have any choice */
+	if (group->group_weight == 1)
+		return cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus(group));
+
 	/* Traverse only the allowed CPUs */
 	for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_group_cpus(group), tsk_cpus_allowed(p)) {
 		if (idle_cpu(i)) {
-- 
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[PATCH v2 03/13] sched/fair: Optimize find_idlest_cpu() when there is no choice Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> - 2016-06-22 19:10 +0200

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