Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE inselect_task_rq_fair and code clean up

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Jul 26 2012 - 05:37:37 EST


On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:27 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:

> if (affine_sd) {
> - if (cpu == prev_cpu || wake_affine(affine_sd, p, sync))
> + if (wake_affine(affine_sd, p, sync))
> prev_cpu = cpu;
>
> new_cpu = select_idle_sibling(p, prev_cpu);

Hm, if cpu == prev_cpu, asking wake_affine() if it's ok to put wakee
back where it came from is wasted cycles.. that's where the task is
headed regardless of reply.

-Mike

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