From fe45bafbd0e1b5e828aa9d44d07e569df85869a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:43:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Don't re-schedule CPU flexible events needlessly In the sched-in path, we first remove a CPU's flexible events in order to give priority to the task's pinned events. However, this step can be safely skipped if the task doesn't have its own pinned events. This patch implements this skipping. Reported-by: Adrian Hunter Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170119164330.22887-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index d92c7ad..8c0b733 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -3122,8 +3122,12 @@ static void perf_event_context_sched_in(struct perf_event_context *ctx, * We want to keep the following priority order: * cpu pinned (that don't need to move), task pinned, * cpu flexible, task flexible. + * + * However, if task's ctx is not carrying any pinned + * events, no need to flip the cpuctx's events around. */ - cpu_ctx_sched_out(cpuctx, EVENT_FLEXIBLE); + if (!list_empty(&ctx->pinned_groups)) + cpu_ctx_sched_out(cpuctx, EVENT_FLEXIBLE); perf_event_sched_in(cpuctx, ctx, task); perf_pmu_enable(ctx->pmu); perf_ctx_unlock(cpuctx, ctx); -- 2.7.4