Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Rearrange select_task_rq_fair() to optimize it

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 25-04-18, 10:39, Quentin Perret wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 Apr 2018 at 14:33:27 (+0530), Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 25-04-18, 09:13, Quentin Perret wrote:
> > > While you're at it, you could probably remove the one in wake_cap() ? I
> > > think having just one in select_task_rq_fair() should be enough.
> > 
> > Just make it clear, you are asking me to remove sync_entity_load_avg()
> > in wake_cap() ? But aren't we required to do that, as in the very next
> > line we call task_util(p) ?
> 
> Right, we do need to call sync_entity_load_avg() at some point before
> calling task_util(), but we don't need to re-call it in strf()
> after in this case. So my point was just that if you want to re-work
> the wake-up path and make sure we don't call sync_entity_load_avg()
> if not needed then this might need fixing as well ... Or maybe we don't
> care since re-calling sync_entity_load_avg() should be really cheap ...

These are in two very different paths and I am not sure of a clean way
to avoid calling sync_entity_load_avg() again. Maybe will leave it as
is for now.

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viresh