Commit-ID: 95a79b805b935f4a7b685aa8a117d916c638323e
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/95a79b805b935f4a7b685aa8a117d916c638323e
Author: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo....@lge.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:36:41 +0900
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 08:26:59 +0200
sched: Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue()
Remove one division operation in find_busiest_queue() by using
crosswise multiplication:
wl_i / power_i > wl_j / power_j :=
wl_i * power_j > wl_j * power_i
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo....@lge.com>
[ Expanded the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375778203-31343-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo....@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index f918635..8aa217f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4968,7 +4968,7 @@ static struct rq *find_busiest_queue(struct lb_env *env,
struct sched_group *group)
{
struct rq *busiest = NULL, *rq;
- unsigned long max_load = 0;
+ unsigned long busiest_load = 0, busiest_power = 1;
int i;
for_each_cpu(i, sched_group_cpus(group)) {
@@ -4998,11 +4998,15 @@ static struct rq *find_busiest_queue(struct lb_env *env,
* the weighted_cpuload() scaled with the cpu power, so that
* the load can be moved away from the cpu that is potentially
* running at a lower capacity.
+ *
+ * Thus we're looking for max(wl_i / power_i), crosswise
+ * multiplication to rid ourselves of the division works out
+ * to: wl_i * power_j > wl_j * power_i; where j is our
+ * previous maximum.
*/
- wl = (wl * SCHED_POWER_SCALE) / power;
-
- if (wl > max_load) {
- max_load = wl;
+ if (wl * busiest_power > busiest_load * power) {
+ busiest_load = wl;
+ busiest_power = power;
busiest = rq;
}
}
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