[PATCH V3 RFC 1/2] sched: Bail out of yield_to when source and target runqueue has one task

[Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

In case of undercomitted scenarios, especially in large guests
yield_to overhead is significantly high. when run queue length of
source and target is one, take an opportunity to bail out and return
-ESRCH. This return condition can be further exploited to quickly come
out of PLE handler.

(History: Raghavendra initially worked on break out of kvm ple handler upon
 seeing source runqueue length = 1, but it had to export rq length).
 Peter came up with the elegant idea of return -ESRCH in scheduler core.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Raghavendra, Checking the rq length of target vcpu condition added.(thanks Avi)
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 kernel/sched/core.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 2d8927f..fc219a5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4289,7 +4289,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(yield);
  * It's the caller's job to ensure that the target task struct
  * can't go away on us before we can do any checks.
  *
- * Returns true if we indeed boosted the target task.
+ * Returns:
+ *	true (>0) if we indeed boosted the target task.
+ *	false (0) if we failed to boost the target.
+ *	-ESRCH if there's no task to yield to.
  */
 bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
 {
@@ -4303,6 +4306,15 @@ bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
 
 again:
 	p_rq = task_rq(p);
+	/*
+	 * If we're the only runnable task on the rq and target rq also
+	 * has only one task, there's absolutely no point in yielding.
+	 */
+	if (rq->nr_running == 1 && p_rq->nr_running == 1) {
+		yielded = -ESRCH;
+		goto out_irq;
+	}
+
 	double_rq_lock(rq, p_rq);
 	while (task_rq(p) != p_rq) {
 		double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq);
@@ -4310,13 +4322,13 @@ again:
 	}
 
 	if (!curr->sched_class->yield_to_task)
-		goto out;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	if (curr->sched_class != p->sched_class)
-		goto out;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	if (task_running(p_rq, p) || p->state)
-		goto out;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	yielded = curr->sched_class->yield_to_task(rq, p, preempt);
 	if (yielded) {
@@ -4329,11 +4341,12 @@ again:
 			resched_task(p_rq->curr);
 	}
 
-out:
+out_unlock:
 	double_rq_unlock(rq, p_rq);
+out_irq:
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
-	if (yielded)
+	if (yielded > 0)
 		schedule();
 
 	return yielded;