sched/rt: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target
This patch adds checks that prevens futile attempts to move rt tasks
to a CPU with active tasks of equal or higher priority.
This reduces run queue lock contention and improves the performance of
a well known OLTP benchmark by 0.7%.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Cc: Suruchi Kadu <suruchi.a.kadu@intel.com>
Cc: Doug Nelson<doug.nelson@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421430374.2399.27.camel@schen9-desk2.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/sched/rt.c b/kernel/sched/rt.c
index 6725e3c..f4d4b07 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/rt.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/rt.c
@@ -1340,7 +1340,12 @@
curr->prio <= p->prio)) {
int target = find_lowest_rq(p);
- if (target != -1)
+ /*
+ * Don't bother moving it if the destination CPU is
+ * not running a lower priority task.
+ */
+ if (target != -1 &&
+ p->prio < cpu_rq(target)->rt.highest_prio.curr)
cpu = target;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -1617,6 +1622,16 @@
lowest_rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
+ if (lowest_rq->rt.highest_prio.curr <= task->prio) {
+ /*
+ * Target rq has tasks of equal or higher priority,
+ * retrying does not release any lock and is unlikely
+ * to yield a different result.
+ */
+ lowest_rq = NULL;
+ break;
+ }
+
/* if the prio of this runqueue changed, try again */
if (double_lock_balance(rq, lowest_rq)) {
/*