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Date:	Fri, 4 Dec 2015 03:57:23 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Waiman Long <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Waiman.Long@....com, scott.norton@....com, hpa@...or.com,
	efault@....de, mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, doug.hatch@....com
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Avoid redundant idle_cpu()
  call in update_sg_lb_stats()

Commit-ID:  a426f99c91d1036767a7819aaaba6bd3191b7f06
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a426f99c91d1036767a7819aaaba6bd3191b7f06
Author:     Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:09:38 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
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 <Waiman.Long@....com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@....com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@....com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448478580-26467-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 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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