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* sched: Revert need_resched() to look at TIF_NEED_RESCHEDPeter Zijlstra2013-09-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Yuanhan reported a serious throughput regression in his pigz benchmark. Using the ftrace patch I found that several idle paths need more TLC before we can switch the generic need_resched() over to preempt_need_resched. The preemption paths benefit most from preempt_need_resched and do indeed use it; all other need_resched() users don't really care that much so reverting need_resched() back to tif_need_resched() is the simple and safe solution. Reported-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: lkp@linux.intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130927153003.GF15690@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched, x86: Optimize the preempt_schedule() callPeter Zijlstra2013-09-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the bloat of the C calling convention out of the preempt_enable() sites by creating an ASM wrapper which allows us to do an asm("call ___preempt_schedule") instead. calling.h bits by Andi Kleen Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tk7xdi1cvvxewixzke8t8le1@git.kernel.org [ Fixed build error. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched, x86: Provide a per-cpu preempt_count implementationPeter Zijlstra2013-09-25
Convert x86 to use a per-cpu preemption count. The reason for doing so is that accessing per-cpu variables is a lot cheaper than accessing thread_info variables. We still need to save/restore the actual preemption count due to PREEMPT_ACTIVE so we place the per-cpu __preempt_count variable in the same cache-line as the other hot __switch_to() variables such as current_task. NOTE: this save/restore is required even for !PREEMPT kernels as cond_resched() also relies on preempt_count's PREEMPT_ACTIVE to ignore task_struct::state. Also rename thread_info::preempt_count to ensure nobody is 'accidentally' still poking at it. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>