Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:16:53 +0530 | From | Nikanth Karthikesan <> | Subject | [PATCH] sched: minor optimization |
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As an optimization, if all tasks are in the fair class, the next task is directly picked from fair_sched_class. But, if it returns no task we go through again from sched_class_highest which could be avoided and instead return the idle task directly.
Signed-off-by : Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> --- kernel/sched.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Index: b/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -3449,6 +3449,8 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq, struct tas p = fair_sched_class.pick_next_task(rq); if (likely(p)) return p; + else /* rq->nr_running is zero */ + return idle_sched_class.pick_next_task(rq); }
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