[tip: sched/core] sched/fair: optimize the PLACE_LAG when se->vlag is zero

From: tip-bot2 for Huang Shijie
Date: Tue Oct 08 2024 - 04:32:04 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 4423af84b29794a9bd2bd07188d8e71083e54c61
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/4423af84b29794a9bd2bd07188d8e71083e54c61
Author: Huang Shijie <shijie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:00:21 +08:00
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:28:41 +02:00

sched/fair: optimize the PLACE_LAG when se->vlag is zero

When PLACE_LAG is enabled, from the relationship:
vl_i = (W + w_i)*vl'_i / W
we know that if vl'_i(se->vlag) is zero, the vl_i is zero too.

So if se->vlag is zero, there is no need to waste cycles to
do the calculation.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241001070021.10626-1-shijie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
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 c9e3b8d..5a62121 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5280,7 +5280,7 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
*
* EEVDF: placement strategy #1 / #2
*/
- if (sched_feat(PLACE_LAG) && cfs_rq->nr_running) {
+ if (sched_feat(PLACE_LAG) && cfs_rq->nr_running && se->vlag) {
struct sched_entity *curr = cfs_rq->curr;
unsigned long load;