linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/6] sched/fair: Avoid an unnecessary lookup of current CPU ID during wake

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Message-Id: <20180213133730.24064-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:37:25 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] sched/fair: Avoid an unnecessary lookup of current CPU ID during wake_affine

The only caller of wake_affine() knows the CPU ID. Pass it in instead of
rechecking it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5eb3ffc9be84..4b3e86eb2222 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5751,9 +5751,8 @@ wake_affine_weight(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
 }
 
 static int wake_affine(struct sched_domain *sd, struct task_struct *p,
-		       int prev_cpu, int sync)
+		       int this_cpu, int prev_cpu, int sync)
 {
-	int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	int target = nr_cpumask_bits;
 
 	if (sched_feat(WA_IDLE))
@@ -6376,7 +6375,7 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sd_flag, int wake_f
 		if (cpu == prev_cpu)
 			goto pick_cpu;
 
-		new_cpu = wake_affine(affine_sd, p, prev_cpu, sync);
+		new_cpu = wake_affine(affine_sd, p, cpu, prev_cpu, sync);
 	}
 
 	if (sd && !(sd_flag & SD_BALANCE_FORK)) {
-- 
2.15.1