sched: Skip double execution of pick_next_task_fair()
Tim wrote: "The current code will call pick_next_task_fair a second time in the slow path if we did not pull any task in our first try. This is really unnecessary as we already know no task can be pulled and it doubles the delay for the cpu to enter idle. We instrumented some network workloads and that saw that pick_next_task_fair is frequently called twice before a cpu enters idle. The call to pick_next_task_fair can add non trivial latency as it calls load_balance which runs find_busiest_group on an hierarchy of sched domains spanning the cpus for a large system. For some 4 socket systems, we saw almost 0.25 msec spent per call of pick_next_task_fair before a cpu can be idled." Optimize the second call away for the common case and document the dependency. Reported-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140424100047.GP11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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