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sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task() 

pull_dl_task() uses pick_next_earliest_dl_task() to select a migration
candidate; this is sub-optimal since the next earliest task -- as per
the regular runqueue -- might not be migratable at all. This could
result in iterating the entire runqueue looking for a task.

Instead iterate the pushable queue -- this queue only contains tasks
that have at least 2 cpus set in their cpus_allowed mask.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431496867-4194-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Wanpeng Li 2015-05-13 14:01:01 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 1cde2930e1
commit 8b5e770ed7
1 changed files with 27 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1230,6 +1230,32 @@ next_node:
return NULL;
}
/*
* Return the earliest pushable rq's task, which is suitable to be executed
* on the CPU, NULL otherwise:
*/
static struct task_struct *pick_earliest_pushable_dl_task(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
{
struct rb_node *next_node = rq->dl.pushable_dl_tasks_leftmost;
struct task_struct *p = NULL;
if (!has_pushable_dl_tasks(rq))
return NULL;
next_node:
if (next_node) {
p = rb_entry(next_node, struct task_struct, pushable_dl_tasks);
if (pick_dl_task(rq, p, cpu))
return p;
next_node = rb_next(next_node);
goto next_node;
}
return NULL;
}
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, local_cpu_mask_dl);
static int find_later_rq(struct task_struct *task)
@ -1514,7 +1540,7 @@ static int pull_dl_task(struct rq *this_rq)
if (src_rq->dl.dl_nr_running <= 1)
goto skip;
p = pick_next_earliest_dl_task(src_rq, this_cpu);
p = pick_earliest_pushable_dl_task(src_rq, this_cpu);
/*
* We found a task to be pulled if: