[tip:sched/core] sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task()

[tip-bot for Wanpeng Li <tipbot@zytor.com>]

Commit-ID:  8b5e770ed7c05a65ffd2d33a83c14572696236dc
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/8b5e770ed7c05a65ffd2d33a83c14572696236dc
Author:     Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 13 May 2015 14:01:01 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:06:45 +0200

sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task()

pull_dl_task() uses pick_next_earliest_dl_task() to select a migration
candidate; this is sub-optimal since the next earliest task -- as per
the regular runqueue -- might not be migratable at all. This could
result in iterating the entire runqueue looking for a task.

Instead iterate the pushable queue -- this queue only contains tasks
that have at least 2 cpus set in their cpus_allowed mask.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
[ Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431496867-4194-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 890ce95..9cbe1c7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -1230,6 +1230,32 @@ next_node:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Return the earliest pushable rq's task, which is suitable to be executed
+ * on the CPU, NULL otherwise:
+ */
+static struct task_struct *pick_earliest_pushable_dl_task(struct rq *rq, int cpu)
+{
+	struct rb_node *next_node = rq->dl.pushable_dl_tasks_leftmost;
+	struct task_struct *p = NULL;
+
+	if (!has_pushable_dl_tasks(rq))
+		return NULL;
+
+next_node:
+	if (next_node) {
+		p = rb_entry(next_node, struct task_struct, pushable_dl_tasks);
+
+		if (pick_dl_task(rq, p, cpu))
+			return p;
+
+		next_node = rb_next(next_node);
+		goto next_node;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, local_cpu_mask_dl);
 
 static int find_later_rq(struct task_struct *task)
@@ -1514,7 +1540,7 @@ static int pull_dl_task(struct rq *this_rq)
 		if (src_rq->dl.dl_nr_running <= 1)
 			goto skip;
 
-		p = pick_next_earliest_dl_task(src_rq, this_cpu);
+		p = pick_earliest_pushable_dl_task(src_rq, this_cpu);
 
 		/*
 		 * We found a task to be pulled if:
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