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authorJohn Stultz <jstultz@google.com>2026-03-24 19:13:17 +0000
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2026-04-03 14:23:38 +0200
commit37341ec573da7c16fdd45222b1bfb7b421dbdbcb (patch)
tree18eed18325c60cc2ce482c19eaf1c4fcef18f199 /kernel
parente0ca8991b2de6c9dfe6fcd8a0364951b2bd56797 (diff)
sched: Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
Peter noted: Compilers are really bad (as in they utterly refuse) optimizing (even when marked with __pure) the static branch things, and will happily emit multiple identical in a row. So pull out the one obvious sched_proxy_exec() branch in __schedule() and remove some of the 'implicit' ones in that path. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324191337.1841376-3-jstultz@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c20
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 29741685762d..f3306d3f2aa1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6597,11 +6597,7 @@ find_proxy_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *donor, struct rq_flags *rf)
struct mutex *mutex;
/* Follow blocked_on chain. */
- for (p = donor; task_is_blocked(p); p = owner) {
- mutex = p->blocked_on;
- /* Something changed in the chain, so pick again */
- if (!mutex)
- return NULL;
+ for (p = donor; (mutex = p->blocked_on); p = owner) {
/*
* By taking mutex->wait_lock we hold off concurrent mutex_unlock()
* and ensure @owner sticks around.
@@ -6832,12 +6828,14 @@ pick_again:
next = pick_next_task(rq, rq->donor, &rf);
rq_set_donor(rq, next);
rq->next_class = next->sched_class;
- if (unlikely(task_is_blocked(next))) {
- next = find_proxy_task(rq, next, &rf);
- if (!next)
- goto pick_again;
- if (next == rq->idle)
- goto keep_resched;
+ if (sched_proxy_exec()) {
+ if (unlikely(next->blocked_on)) {
+ next = find_proxy_task(rq, next, &rf);
+ if (!next)
+ goto pick_again;
+ if (next == rq->idle)
+ goto keep_resched;
+ }
}
picked:
clear_tsk_need_resched(prev);