From 7b270f609982f68f2433442bf167f735e7364b06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:09:13 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Bail out of yield_to when source and target runqueue has one task In case of undercomitted scenarios, especially in large guests yield_to overhead is significantly high. when run queue length of source and target is one, take an opportunity to bail out and return -ESRCH. This return condition can be further exploited to quickly come out of PLE handler. (History: Raghavendra initially worked on break out of kvm ple handler upon seeing source runqueue length = 1, but it had to export rq length). Peter came up with the elegant idea of return -ESRCH in scheduler core. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Raghavendra, Checking the rq length of target vcpu condition added.(thanks Avi) Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T Acked-by: Andrew Jones Tested-by: Chegu Vinod Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov --- kernel/sched/core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 0533496b6228..01edad9b5d71 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4316,7 +4316,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(yield); * It's the caller's job to ensure that the target task struct * can't go away on us before we can do any checks. * - * Returns true if we indeed boosted the target task. + * Returns: + * true (>0) if we indeed boosted the target task. + * false (0) if we failed to boost the target. + * -ESRCH if there's no task to yield to. */ bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt) { @@ -4330,6 +4333,15 @@ bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt) again: p_rq = task_rq(p); + /* + * If we're the only runnable task on the rq and target rq also + * has only one task, there's absolutely no point in yielding. + */ + if (rq->nr_running == 1 && p_rq->nr_running == 1) { + yielded = -ESRCH; + goto out_irq; + } + double_rq_lock(rq, p_rq); while (task_rq(p) != p_rq) { double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq); @@ -4337,13 +4349,13 @@ again: } if (!curr->sched_class->yield_to_task) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; if (curr->sched_class != p->sched_class) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; if (task_running(p_rq, p) || p->state) - goto out; + goto out_unlock; yielded = curr->sched_class->yield_to_task(rq, p, preempt); if (yielded) { @@ -4356,11 +4368,12 @@ again: resched_task(p_rq->curr); } -out: +out_unlock: double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq); +out_irq: local_irq_restore(flags); - if (yielded) + if (yielded > 0) schedule(); return yielded; -- 2.39.5