From: Steven Rostedt The if (unlikely(!rt_rq->rt_nr_running)) test in pick_next_task_rt() tests if there is another rt task ready to run. If so, then pick it. In most systems, only one RT task runs at a time most of the time. Running the branch unlikely annotator profiler on a system doing average work "running firefox, evolution, xchat, distcc builds, etc", it showed the following: correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 324344 135104992 99 _pick_next_task_rt sched_rt.c 1064 99% of the time the condition is true. When an RT task schedules out, it is unlikely that another RT task is waiting to run on that same run queue. Simply remove the unlikely() condition. Acked-by: Gregory Haskins Cc:Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/sched_rt.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c index 1ab66a2..c2266c4 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_rt.c +++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ static struct task_struct *_pick_next_task_rt(struct rq *rq) rt_rq = &rq->rt; - if (unlikely(!rt_rq->rt_nr_running)) + if (!rt_rq->rt_nr_running) return NULL; if (rt_rq_throttled(rt_rq)) -- 1.7.2.3 -- 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/