sched/fair: Optimize select_idle_core()
Currently we loop through all threads of a core to evaluate if the core is idle or not. This is unnecessary. If a thread of a core is not idle, skip evaluating other threads of a core. Also while clearing the cpumask, bits of all CPUs of a core can be cleared in one-shot. Collecting ticks on a Power 9 SMT 8 system around select_idle_core while running schbench shows us (units are in ticks, hence lesser is better) Without patch N Min Max Median Avg Stddev x 130 151 1083 284 322.72308 144.41494 With patch N Min Max Median Avg Stddev Improvement x 164 88 610 201 225.79268 106.78943 30.03% Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191206172422.6578-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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