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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: remove sched_find_first_bit()
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 20:09:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170514180917.bil7xr4bqtfk6fzj@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170513010152.13986-1-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>


* Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:

> sched_find_first_bit() is in fact the unrolled version of
> find_first_bit(), which is theoretically faster in some cases.
> But in the kernel it is called only in couple places in 
> kernel/sched/rt.c, and both of them are not looking like hot
> paths [...]

They are in terms of scheduling: pick_next_rt_entity() is in the RT scheduling 
fastpath.

Which makes me just suspicious of how careful this patch really is:

> that will doubtly achieve measurable benefit from using unrolled version of 
> find_first_bit() - there's no hard loops, and the execution path is not really 
> short.

... that's really just handwaving. Numbers please.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-14 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-13  1:01 Yury Norov
2017-05-14 18:09 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2017-05-15 15:47   ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 16:06     ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-15 16:17       ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 20:31         ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-15 20:58           ` Yury Norov
2017-05-15 21:04             ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-16  8:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-05-17 12:16       ` Yury Norov
2017-05-18  7:14         ` Ingo Molnar
2017-05-15 14:18 ` Arnd Bergmann

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