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Mike Galbraith ff80a77f20 sched: simplify sched_find_first_bit()
simplify sched_rt.c's sched_find_first_bit() function: there are
only 100 RT priority levels left.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
Nick Piggin beed33a816 [PATCH] sched: likely profiling
This likely profiling is pretty fun. I found a few possible problems
in sched.c.

This patch may be not measurable, but when I did measure long ago,
nooping (un)likely cost a couple of % on scheduler heavy benchmarks, so
it all adds up.

Tweak some branch hints:

- the 2nd 64 bits in the bitmask is likely to be populated, because it
  contains the first 28 bits (nearly 3/4) of the normal priorities.
  (ratio of 669669:691 ~= 1000:1).

- it isn't unlikely that context switching switches to another process. it
  might be very rapidly switching to and from the idle process (ratio of
  475815:419004 and 471330:423544). Let the branch predictor decide.

- preempt_enable seems to be very often called in a nested preempt_disable
  or with interrupts disabled (ratio of 3567760:87965 ~= 40:1)

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:22 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 6d29ea23da [PATCH] bitops: generic sched_find_first_bit()
This patch introduces the C-language equivalent of the function: int
sched_find_first_bit(const unsigned long *b);

In include/asm-generic/bitops/sched.h

This code largely copied from: include/asm-powerpc/bitops.h

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:11 -08:00