From: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
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Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v2] sched/psi: use __ffs() to walk task-count bitmasks in psi_group_change()
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:59:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260717105939.203685-1-usama.arif@linux.dev> (raw)
psi_group_change() walks the @clear and @set bitmasks to
decrement/increment groupc->tasks[t]. Both masks are at most
NR_PSI_TASK_COUNTS (=4) wide and typically have one or two bits
set. Today's form visits every position up to the highest set bit:
for (t = 0, m = clear; m; m &= ~(1 << t), t++) {
if (!(m & (1 << t)))
continue;
...
}
so a mask with only bit 3 set still spins four times through the
skip path. Switch both walks to __ffs() + m &= m-1 form:
while (clear) {
t = __ffs(clear);
clear &= clear - 1;
...
}
which iterates only over the set bits and terminates naturally on
m == 0. m & (m - 1) clears the lowest set bit. This code is easier
to read as well.
An in-kernel microbench (noinline, same body, IRQs off, pinned CPU
on Zen4c, min-of-10 cyc/call) over mask distributions produced by
common scheduler PSI paths:
mask pattern old new delta
empty (clear=0x0, set=0x0) 3.68 3.68 +0%
sleep (clear=0x4, set=0x0) 9.60 3.74 -61%
iowait-sleep (clear=0x4, set=0x1) 12.32 4.45 -63%
memstall-sleep (clear=0xc, set=0x0) 11.87 5.54 -53%
wake (clear=0x0, set=0x4) 7.10 3.70 -47%
iowait-wake (clear=0x1, set=0x4) 10.83 4.48 -58%
Every non-empty case wins 47-63%: old cost tracks the highest set bit
(linear walk), new cost tracks the count of set bits (skip zeros via
TZCNT). Single-bit patterns run at the empty-case floor.
The generated psi_group_change() text also shrinks by 67 bytes under
-O2 -march=x86-64 (756 -> 689): no scratch register for a "constant 1"
(only __ffs's operand is needed), simpler bit-clear (LEA+AND vs
SHL+NOT+AND after the test), and no skip-if-unset check per position.
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
---
v1 -> v2
- Switch from using for_each_set_bit() to __ffs(). Based on the
benchmark: https://gist.github.com/uarif1/e1bf78b54f50099b354b84684f880fda
and code size reduction for psi_group_change().
---
kernel/sched/psi.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index d9c9d9480a45..2951614cae17 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static void psi_group_change(struct psi_group *group, int cpu,
u64 now, bool wake_clock)
{
struct psi_group_cpu *groupc;
- unsigned int t, m;
+ unsigned int t, clear_orig;
u32 state_mask;
lockdep_assert_rq_held(cpu_rq(cpu));
@@ -820,27 +820,31 @@ static void psi_group_change(struct psi_group *group, int cpu,
state_mask = groupc->state_mask & PSI_ONCPU;
}
+ clear_orig = clear;
+
/*
* The rest of the state mask is calculated based on the task
* counts. Update those first, then construct the mask.
*/
- for (t = 0, m = clear; m; m &= ~(1 << t), t++) {
- if (!(m & (1 << t)))
- continue;
+ while (clear) {
+ t = __ffs(clear);
+ clear &= clear - 1;
if (groupc->tasks[t]) {
groupc->tasks[t]--;
} else if (!psi_bug) {
printk_deferred(KERN_ERR "psi: task underflow! cpu=%d t=%d tasks=[%u %u %u %u] clear=%x set=%x\n",
cpu, t, groupc->tasks[0],
groupc->tasks[1], groupc->tasks[2],
- groupc->tasks[3], clear, set);
+ groupc->tasks[3], clear_orig, set);
psi_bug = 1;
}
}
- for (t = 0; set; set &= ~(1 << t), t++)
- if (set & (1 << t))
- groupc->tasks[t]++;
+ while (set) {
+ t = __ffs(set);
+ set &= set - 1;
+ groupc->tasks[t]++;
+ }
if (!group->enabled) {
/*
--
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