Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Remove redundant lookup of rq in check_preempt_wakeup

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Tue Sep 21 2021 - 03:53:14 EST


On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 09:21:16AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 16:26, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The rq for curr is read during the function preamble, remove the
> > redundant lookup.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > index ff69f245b939..038edfaaae9e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> > @@ -7190,7 +7190,7 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_
> > if (cse_is_idle != pse_is_idle)
> > return;
> >
> > - update_curr(cfs_rq_of(se));
> > + update_curr(cfs_rq);
>
> se can have been modified by find_matching_se(&se, &pse)
>

I still expected the cfs_rq to be the same, particularly given that the
context is about preempting the current task on a runqueue. Is that
wrong?

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs