Re: [PATCH] sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair

["Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:01:58AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Amit K. Arora wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Please consider this patch. It makes a few minor changes to
> >> sched_fair.c.
> >>
> >>
> >> sched: Minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair
> >>
> >> This patch does following:
> >> o Reduces the number of arguments to wake_affine().
> >
> > At what point is it cheaper to pass items as args rather than 
> > recalculating them?  If reducing the number of args is desirable, what 
> > about removing the "this_cpu" and "prev_cpu" args and recalculating 
> > them in wake_affine()?
> 
> it's usually not worth it, especially if it leads to duplicated 
> calculations (and code) like:
> 
> +       unsigned int imbalance = 100 + (this_sd->imbalance_pct - 100) / 2;
> 
> gcc will optimize it away because it's all static functions, but still.

Ok. I will resubmit the patch with other suggested changes only. It
won't try to reduce wake_affine's arguments (besides the first argument
"rq" which is not being used at all). 

Regards,
Amit Arora
> 
> 'size kernel/sched.o' should be a good guideline: if the .o's text 
> section gets smaller due to a patch it usually gets faster as well.
> 
> 	Ingo