Commit 710390d9 authored Nov 24, 2009 by Tim Blechmann Committed by Ingo Molnar Nov 24, 2009

sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch()



Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed over 90%
incorrect branch hints:

  10420275 170645395  94 context_switch                 sched.c
   3043
  10408421 171098521  94 context_switch                 sched.c
   3050

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0BBB9F.6080304@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 36ace27e

kernel/sched.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2829,14 +2829,14 @@ context_switch(struct rq rq, struct task_struct prev,
		*/
		arch_start_context_switch(prev);

		if (unlikely(!mm)) {
		if (likely(!mm)) {
		next->active_mm = oldmm;
		atomic_inc(&oldmm->mm_count);
		enter_lazy_tlb(oldmm, next);
		} else
		switch_mm(oldmm, mm, next);

		if (unlikely(!prev->mm)) {
		if (likely(!prev->mm)) {
		prev->active_mm = NULL;
		rq->prev_mm = oldmm;
		}