[tip:locking/core] sched/wake_q: Add branch prediction hint to wake_q_add() cmpxchg

tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2019-01-21T11:29:25Z

Commit-ID: 87ff19cb2f1aa55a5d8b691e6690cc059a59d2ec
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/87ff19cb2f1aa55a5d8b691e6690cc059a59d2ec
Author: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
AuthorDate: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:31:30 -0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:18:50 +0100

sched/wake_q: Add branch prediction hint to wake_q_add() cmpxchg

The cmpxchg() will fail when the task is already in the process
of waking up, and as such is an extremely rare occurrence.
Micro-optimize the call and put an unlikely() around it.

To no surprise, when using CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
under a number of workloads the incorrect rate was a mere 1-2%.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yongji Xie <elohimes@gmail.com>
Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: lilin24@baidu.com
Cc: liuqi16@baidu.com
Cc: nixun@baidu.com
Cc: xieyongji@baidu.com
Cc: yuanlinsi01@baidu.com
Cc: zhangyu31@baidu.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203053130.gwkw6kg72azt2npb@linux-r8p5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index d8d76a65cfdd..b05eef7d7a1f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ void wake_q_add(struct wake_q_head *head, struct task_struct *task)
* state, even in the failed case, an explicit smp_mb() must be used.
*/
smp_mb__before_atomic();
- if (cmpxchg_relaxed(&node->next, NULL, WAKE_Q_TAIL))
+ if (unlikely(cmpxchg_relaxed(&node->next, NULL, WAKE_Q_TAIL)))
return;

get_task_struct(task);