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Commit e5e678e4 authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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sched,fair: Skip newidle_balance if a wakeup is pending



The try_to_wake_up function has an optimization where it can queue
a task for wakeup on its previous CPU, if the task is still in the
middle of going to sleep inside schedule().

Once schedule() re-enables IRQs, the task will be woken up with an
IPI, and placed back on the runqueue.

If we have such a wakeup pending, there is no need to search other
CPUs for runnable tasks. Just skip (or bail out early from) newidle
balancing, and run the just woken up task.

For a memcache like workload test, this reduces total CPU use by
about 2%, proportionally split between user and system time,
and p99 and p95 application response time by 10% on average.
The schedstats run_delay number shows a similar improvement.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422130236.0bb353df@imladris.surriel.com
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