[PATCH] sched/fair: Avoid redundant EAS calculation

From: Quentin Perret
Date: Fri Sep 20 2019 - 04:07:20 EST


The EAS wake-up path computes the system energy for several CPU
candidates: the CPU with maximum spare capacity in each performance
domain, and the prev_cpu. However, if prev_cpu also happens to be the
CPU with maximum spare capacity in its performance domain, the energy
calculation is still done twice, unnecessarily.

Add a condition to filter out this corner case before doing the energy
calculation.

Reported-by: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d4bbf68c3161..7399382bc291 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6412,7 +6412,7 @@ static int find_energy_efficient_cpu(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu)
}

/* Evaluate the energy impact of using this CPU. */
- if (max_spare_cap_cpu >= 0) {
+ if (max_spare_cap_cpu >= 0 && max_spare_cap_cpu != prev_cpu) {
cur_delta = compute_energy(p, max_spare_cap_cpu, pd);
cur_delta -= base_energy_pd;
if (cur_delta < best_delta) {
--
2.22.1