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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2019-05-29 20:36:44 +0000
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2019-08-08 09:09:31 +0200
commit67692435c411e5c53a1c588ecca2037aebd81f2e (patch)
tree53d9c44e6e80654a60c652493d4b0cc948ce5818 /kernel/sched/fair.c
parent5f2a45fc9e89e022233085e6f0f352eb6ff770bb (diff)
sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path
Avoid the RETRY_TASK case in the pick_next_task() slow path. By doing the put_prev_task() early, we get the rt/deadline pull done, and by testing rq->nr_running we know if we need newidle_balance(). This then gives a stable state to pick a task from. Since the fast-path is fair only; it means the other classes will always have pick_next_task(.prev=NULL, .rf=NULL) and we can simplify. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Cc: mingo@kernel.org Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@digitalocean.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <naravamudan@digitalocean.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aa34d24b36547139248f32a30138791ac6c02bd6.1559129225.git.vpillai@digitalocean.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/fair.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 4418c1998e69..19c58599e967 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6770,7 +6770,7 @@ again:
goto idle;
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
- if (prev->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
+ if (!prev || prev->sched_class != &fair_sched_class)
goto simple;
/*
@@ -6847,8 +6847,8 @@ again:
goto done;
simple:
#endif
-
- put_prev_task(rq, prev);
+ if (prev)
+ put_prev_task(rq, prev);
do {
se = pick_next_entity(cfs_rq, NULL);
@@ -6876,6 +6876,9 @@ done: __maybe_unused;
return p;
idle:
+ if (!rf)
+ return NULL;
+
new_tasks = newidle_balance(rq, rf);
/*