Any thoughts about adding a 'fast path' to the SMP code in
sys_sched_yield. Why not compare nr_pending to smp_num_cpus
before examining the aligned_data structures? Something like,
if (nr_pending > smp_num_cpus)
goto set_resched_now;
Where set_resched_now is a label placed just before the code
that sets the need_resched field of the current process.
This would eliminate touching all the aligned_data cache lines
in the case where nr_pending can never be decremented to zero.
Also, would it make sense to stop decrementing nr_pending to
prevent it from going negative? OR Is the reasoning that in
these cases there is so much 'scheduling' activity that we
should force the reschedule?
-- Mike Kravetz mkravetz@sequent.com IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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