Commit-ID:  a426f99c91d1036767a7819aaaba6bd3191b7f06
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a426f99c91d1036767a7819aaaba6bd3191b7f06
Author:     Waiman Long <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:09:38 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:34:47 +0100

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott J Norton <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index efd664c..4b0e8b8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6398,7 +6398,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
                        bool *overload)
 {
        unsigned long load;
-       int i;
+       int i, nr_running;
 
        memset(sgs, 0, sizeof(*sgs));
 
@@ -6415,7 +6415,8 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
                sgs->group_util += cpu_util(i);
                sgs->sum_nr_running += rq->cfs.h_nr_running;
 
-               if (rq->nr_running > 1)
+               nr_running = rq->nr_running;
+               if (nr_running > 1)
                        *overload = true;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
@@ -6423,7 +6424,10 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
                sgs->nr_preferred_running += rq->nr_preferred_running;
 #endif
                sgs->sum_weighted_load += weighted_cpuload(i);
-               if (idle_cpu(i))
+               /*
+                * No need to call idle_cpu() if nr_running is not 0
+                */
+               if (!nr_running && idle_cpu(i))
                        sgs->idle_cpus++;
        }
 
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