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Message-ID: <b647ffbd0708090111r50d29dbp779e014db1a63296@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:11:25 +0200
From: "Dmitry Adamushko" <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: "Mitchell Erblich" <erblichs@...thlink.net>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question: RT schedular : task_tick_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p) : decreases overhead when rq->nr_running == 1
On 08/08/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Mitchell Erblich <erblichs@...thlink.net> wrote:
>
> > After
> > p->time_slice = static_prio_timeslice(p->static_prio);
> >
> > Why isn't their a check like
> > if (rq->nr_running == 1)
> > return;
> >
> > Which world remove the need for any recheduling or requeue'ing...
>
> your change is a possible optimization, but this is a pretty rare
> codepath because the overwhelming majority of RT apps uses SCHED_FIFO.
> Plus, the time_slice going down to 0 is a relatively rare event even for
> SCHED_RR tasks. [ ... ]
I doubt it's a worth optimization. It's a rare codepath and, moreover,
this optimization is sub-optimal. e.g. the rest of tasks that
contributed to 'rq->nr_running > 1' could be SCHED_NORMAL (or of lower
rt_prio) and so resched_task() is useless as well.
I guess, the following thing would do a better job:
- we do need reschedule() _only_ if there are other task on the
_same_ queue (for this prio level) :
(1) if there is a task with a higher prio, resched_task() would be
called in other place;
(2) if there are tasks of lower prio, we don't care.
I may be wrong, but at the first glance it looks like the following
trick would do the job.. no?
p.s. even if it's ok, it's still a rare codepath (although, it adds
some code to the rare path.. so the drawback is only code-size, I
guess).
--- kernel/sched_rt-prev.c 2007-08-09 09:55:10.000000000 +0200
+++ kernel/sched_rt.c 2007-08-09 09:58:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@ static void task_tick_rt(struct rq *rq,
return;
p->time_slice = static_prio_timeslice(p->static_prio);
+
+ /* We are the only element on the queue. */
+ if (p->run_list.prev == p->run_list.next)
+ return;
+
set_tsk_need_resched(p);
/* put it at the end of the queue: */
--
Best regards,
Dmitry Adamushko
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