[PATCH for-6.12-fixes] sched_ext: Remove unnecessary cpu_relax()

From: David Vernet
Date: Mon Oct 14 2024 - 13:58:43 EST


As described in commit b07996c7abac ("sched_ext: Don't hold
scx_tasks_lock for too long"), we're doing a cond_resched() every 32
calls to scx_task_iter_next() to avoid RCU and other stalls. That commit
also added a cpu_relax() to the codepath where we drop and reacquire the
lock, but as Waiman described in [0], cpu_relax() should only be
necessary in busy loops to avoid pounding on a cacheline (or to allow a
hypertwin to more fully utilize a core).

Let's remove the unnecessary cpu_relax().

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/35b3889b-904a-4d26-981f-c8aa1557a7c7@xxxxxxxxxx/

Cc: Waiman Long <llong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/ext.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/ext.c b/kernel/sched/ext.c
index cb1ab668e965..6eae3b69bf6e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/ext.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/ext.c
@@ -1374,7 +1374,6 @@ static struct task_struct *scx_task_iter_next(struct scx_task_iter *iter)

if (!(++iter->cnt % SCX_OPS_TASK_ITER_BATCH)) {
scx_task_iter_unlock(iter);
- cpu_relax();
cond_resched();
scx_task_iter_relock(iter);
}
--
2.46.1