This patch removes several cpumask operations by keeping track of the first of the CPUS that is of the lowest priority. When the search for the lowest priority runqueue is completed, all the bits up to the first CPU with the lowest priority runqueue is cleared. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/sched_rt.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) Index: linux-compile.git/kernel/sched_rt.c =================================================================== --- linux-compile.git.orig/kernel/sched_rt.c 2007-11-20 19:53:15.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-compile.git/kernel/sched_rt.c 2007-11-20 19:53:17.000000000 -0500 @@ -293,22 +293,20 @@ static struct task_struct *pick_next_hig } static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_t, local_cpu_mask); -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_t, valid_cpu_mask); static int find_lowest_cpus(struct task_struct *task, cpumask_t *lowest_mask) { - int cpu; - cpumask_t *valid_mask = &__get_cpu_var(valid_cpu_mask); int lowest_prio = -1; + int lowest_cpu = 0; int count = 0; + int cpu; - cpus_clear(*lowest_mask); - cpus_and(*valid_mask, cpu_online_map, task->cpus_allowed); + cpus_and(*lowest_mask, cpu_online_map, task->cpus_allowed); /* * Scan each rq for the lowest prio. */ - for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, *valid_mask) { + for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, *lowest_mask) { struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu); /* We look for lowest RT prio or non-rt CPU */ @@ -325,13 +323,30 @@ static int find_lowest_cpus(struct task_ if (rq->rt.highest_prio > lowest_prio) { /* new low - clear old data */ lowest_prio = rq->rt.highest_prio; - if (count) { - cpus_clear(*lowest_mask); - count = 0; - } + lowest_cpu = cpu; + count = 0; } cpu_set(rq->cpu, *lowest_mask); count++; + } else + cpu_clear(cpu, *lowest_mask); + } + + /* + * Clear out all the set bits that represent + * runqueues that were of higher prio than + * the lowest_prio. + */ + if (lowest_cpu) { + /* + * Perhaps we could add another cpumask op to + * zero out bits. Like cpu_zero_bits(cpumask, nrbits); + * Then that could be optimized to use memset and such. + */ + for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, *lowest_mask) { + if (cpu >= lowest_cpu) + break; + cpu_clear(cpu, *lowest_mask); } } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/