Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Rearrange select_task_rq_fair() to optimize it

[Quentin Perret]

On Wednesday 25 Apr 2018 at 15:43:13 (+0530), Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 25-04-18, 10:39, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 Apr 2018 at 14:33:27 (+0530), Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > On 25-04-18, 09:13, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > > > While you're at it, you could probably remove the one in wake_cap() ? I
> > > > think having just one in select_task_rq_fair() should be enough.
> > > 
> > > Just make it clear, you are asking me to remove sync_entity_load_avg()
> > > in wake_cap() ? But aren't we required to do that, as in the very next
> > > line we call task_util(p) ?
> > 
> > Right, we do need to call sync_entity_load_avg() at some point before
> > calling task_util(), but we don't need to re-call it in strf()
> > after in this case. So my point was just that if you want to re-work
> > the wake-up path and make sure we don't call sync_entity_load_avg()
> > if not needed then this might need fixing as well ... Or maybe we don't
> > care since re-calling sync_entity_load_avg() should be really cheap ...
> 
> These are in two very different paths and I am not sure of a clean way
> to avoid calling sync_entity_load_avg() again. Maybe will leave it as
> is for now.

Fair enough, I don't really like this double call but, looking into more
details, I'm not sure how to avoid it cleanly either ...