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sched: optimize siblings status check logic in wake_idle() 

When a logical cpu 'x' already has more than one process running, then most
likely the siblings of that cpu 'x' must be busy.  Otherwise the idle
siblings would have likely(in most of the scenarios) picked up the extra
load making the load on 'x' atmost one.

Use this logic to eliminate the siblings status check and minimize the cache
misses encountered on a heavily loaded system.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Siddha, Suresh B 2007-05-08 00:33:01 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5517d86bea
commit 4953198b6c
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@ -1406,7 +1406,16 @@ static int wake_idle(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
struct sched_domain *sd;
int i;
if (idle_cpu(cpu))
/*
* If it is idle, then it is the best cpu to run this task.
*
* This cpu is also the best, if it has more than one task already.
* Siblings must be also busy(in most cases) as they didn't already
* pickup the extra load from this cpu and hence we need not check
* sibling runqueue info. This will avoid the checks and cache miss
* penalities associated with that.
*/
if (idle_cpu(cpu) || cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_running > 1)
return cpu;
for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {