sched,fair: Skip newidle_balance if a wakeup is pending
authorRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:02:36 +0000 (13:02 -0400)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 12 May 2021 09:43:23 +0000 (11:43 +0200)
commite5e678e4fea26d73444f4427cbbaeab4fa79ecee
tree87538ce381a47c6ec2b6edbfc90e7b67159002cd
parent2b8ca1a907d5fffc85fb648bbace28ddf3420825
sched,fair: Skip newidle_balance if a wakeup is pending

The try_to_wake_up function has an optimization where it can queue
a task for wakeup on its previous CPU, if the task is still in the
middle of going to sleep inside schedule().

Once schedule() re-enables IRQs, the task will be woken up with an
IPI, and placed back on the runqueue.

If we have such a wakeup pending, there is no need to search other
CPUs for runnable tasks. Just skip (or bail out early from) newidle
balancing, and run the just woken up task.

For a memcache like workload test, this reduces total CPU use by
about 2%, proportionally split between user and system time,
and p99 and p95 application response time by 10% on average.
The schedstats run_delay number shows a similar improvement.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422130236.0bb353df@imladris.surriel.com
kernel/sched/fair.c