Commit 36ace27e authored Nov 24, 2009 by Tim Blechmann Committed by Ingo Molnar Nov 24, 2009

sched: Optimize branch hint in pick_next_task_fair()



Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed 90%
incorrect branch hints:

  15728471 158903754  90 pick_next_task_fair
  sched_fair.c    1555

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0BBBB1.2050100@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 42994724

kernel/sched_fair.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1704,7 +1704,7 @@ static struct task_struct pick_next_task_fair(struct rq rq)
		struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = &rq->cfs;
		struct sched_entity *se;

		if (unlikely(!cfs_rq->nr_running))
		if (!cfs_rq->nr_running)
		return NULL;

		do {

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