From a51e91981870d013fcfcc08b0117997edbcbc7a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dario Faggioli Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:00:18 +0100 Subject: sched: Leave sched_setscheduler() earlier if possible, do not disturb SCHED_FIFO tasks sched_setscheduler() (in sched.c) is called in order of changing the scheduling policy and/or the real-time priority of a task. Thus, if we find out that neither of those are actually being modified, it is possible to return earlier and save the overhead of a full deactivate+activate cycle of the task in question. Beside that, if we have more than one SCHED_FIFO task with the same priority on the same rq (which means they share the same priority queue) having one of them changing its position in the priority queue because of a sched_setscheduler (as it happens by means of the deactivate+activate) that does not actually change the priority violates POSIX which states, for SCHED_FIFO: "If a thread whose policy or priority has been modified by pthread_setschedprio() is a running thread or is runnable, the effect on its position in the thread list depends on the direction of the modification, as follows: a. <...> b. If the priority is unchanged, the thread does not change position in the thread list. c. <...>" http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/xsh_chap02_08.html (ed: And the POSIX specification here does, briefly and somewhat unexpectedly, match what common sense tells us as well. ) Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1300971618.3960.82.camel@Palantir> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index f592ce6f861..a8845516ace 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5011,6 +5011,17 @@ recheck: return -EINVAL; } + /* + * If not changing anything there's no need to proceed further: + */ + if (unlikely(policy == p->policy && (!rt_policy(policy) || + param->sched_priority == p->rt_priority))) { + + __task_rq_unlock(rq); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->pi_lock, flags); + return 0; + } + #ifdef CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED if (user) { /* -- cgit v1.2.3