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| author | Nick Piggin | 2006-10-11 01:21:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-10-11 11:14:22 -0700 |
| commit | beed33a816204cb402c69266475b6a60a2433ceb (patch) | |
| tree | 4eaa7e5a1ccf2960d1478774cdfcab671384accb /kernel/sched.c | |
| parent | f33d9bd50478c9a969b65f58feb6b69a3ad478cb (diff) | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 53608a59d6e3..094b5687eef6 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -1822,14 +1822,14 @@ context_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *mm = next->mm; struct mm_struct *oldmm = prev->active_mm; - if (unlikely(!mm)) { + if (!mm) { next->active_mm = oldmm; atomic_inc(&oldmm->mm_count); enter_lazy_tlb(oldmm, next); } else switch_mm(oldmm, mm, next); - if (unlikely(!prev->mm)) { + if (!prev->mm) { prev->active_mm = NULL; WARN_ON(rq->prev_mm); rq->prev_mm = oldmm; @@ -3491,7 +3491,7 @@ asmlinkage void __sched preempt_schedule(void) * If there is a non-zero preempt_count or interrupts are disabled, * we do not want to preempt the current task. Just return.. */ - if (unlikely(ti->preempt_count || irqs_disabled())) + if (likely(ti->preempt_count || irqs_disabled())) return; need_resched: |