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* [PATCH] sched/fair: Clear SMT siblings after determining the core is not idle
@ 2020-11-30 14:40 Mel Gorman
  2020-11-30 14:47 ` Vincent Guittot
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mel Gorman @ 2020-11-30 14:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: Vincent Guittot, Li, Aubrey, Valentin Schneider, linux-kernel,
	Mel Gorman

The clearing of SMT siblings from the SIS mask before checking for an idle
core is a small but unnecessary cost. Defer the clearing of the siblings
until the scan moves to the next potential target. The cost of this was
not measured as it is borderline noise but it should be self-evident.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 0d54d69ba1a5..d9acd55d309b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6087,10 +6087,11 @@ static int select_idle_core(struct task_struct *p, struct sched_domain *sd, int
 				break;
 			}
 		}
-		cpumask_andnot(cpus, cpus, cpu_smt_mask(core));
 
 		if (idle)
 			return core;
+
+		cpumask_andnot(cpus, cpus, cpu_smt_mask(core));
 	}
 
 	/*

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