[patchlet] sched: minor fast-path overhead reduction

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Oct 17 2008 - 09:33:34 EST


Greetings,

103638d added a bit of avoidable overhead to the fast-path.

Use sysctl_sched_min_granularity instead of sched_slice() to restrict buddy wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 18fd171..6708493 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ pick_next(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
struct rq *rq = rq_of(cfs_rq);
u64 pair_slice = rq->clock - cfs_rq->pair_start;

- if (!cfs_rq->next || pair_slice > sched_slice(cfs_rq, cfs_rq->next)) {
+ if (!cfs_rq->next || pair_slice > sysctl_sched_min_granularity) {
cfs_rq->pair_start = rq->clock;
return se;
}


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