sched: use a 2-d bitmap for searching lowest-pri CPU

The current code use a linear algorithm which causes scaling issues
on larger SMP machines.  This patch replaces that algorithm with a
2-dimensional bitmap to reduce latencies in the wake-up path.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched_cpupri.h b/kernel/sched_cpupri.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0b6a3d110fac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/sched_cpupri.h
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_CPUPRI_H
+#define _LINUX_CPUPRI_H
+
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+
+#define CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES 2+MAX_RT_PRIO
+#define CPUPRI_NR_PRI_WORDS CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES/BITS_PER_LONG
+
+#define CPUPRI_INVALID -1
+#define CPUPRI_IDLE     0
+#define CPUPRI_NORMAL   1
+/* values 2-101 are RT priorities 0-99 */
+
+struct cpupri_vec {
+        spinlock_t lock;
+        int        count;
+        cpumask_t  mask;
+};
+
+struct cpupri {
+        struct cpupri_vec pri_to_cpu[CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES];
+        long              pri_active[CPUPRI_NR_PRI_WORDS];
+        int               cpu_to_pri[NR_CPUS];
+};
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+int  cpupri_find(struct cpupri *cp,
+                 struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t *lowest_mask);
+void cpupri_set(struct cpupri *cp, int cpu, int pri);
+void cpupri_init(struct cpupri *cp);
+#else
+#define cpupri_set(cp, cpu, pri) do { } while (0)
+#define cpupri_init() do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_CPUPRI_H */