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Subject: sched: Optimize migrate_disable
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Thu Aug 11 15:03:35 CEST 2011

Change from task_rq_lock() to raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock) to avoid a few
atomic ops. See comment on why it should be safe.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cbz6hkl5r5mvwtx5s3tor2y6@git.kernel.org
---
 kernel/sched/core.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-stable/kernel/sched/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-stable.orig/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ linux-stable/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -5298,7 +5298,19 @@ void migrate_disable(void)
 		preempt_enable();
 		return;
 	}
-	rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
+
+	/*
+	 * Since this is always current we can get away with only locking
+	 * rq->lock, the ->cpus_allowed value can normally only be changed
+	 * while holding both p->pi_lock and rq->lock, but seeing that this
+	 * it current, we cannot actually be waking up, so all code that
+	 * relies on serialization against p->pi_lock is out of scope.
+	 *
+	 * Taking rq->lock serializes us against things like
+	 * set_cpus_allowed_ptr() that can still happen concurrently.
+	 */
+	rq = this_rq();
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
 	p->migrate_disable = 1;
 	mask = tsk_cpus_allowed(p);
 
@@ -5309,7 +5321,7 @@ void migrate_disable(void)
 			p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed(p, mask);
 		p->nr_cpus_allowed = cpumask_weight(mask);
 	}
-	task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(migrate_disable);
@@ -5337,7 +5349,11 @@ void migrate_enable(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
+	/*
+	 * See comment in migrate_disable().
+	 */
+	rq = this_rq();
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
 	p->migrate_disable = 0;
 	mask = tsk_cpus_allowed(p);
 
@@ -5349,7 +5365,7 @@ void migrate_enable(void)
 		p->nr_cpus_allowed = cpumask_weight(mask);
 	}
 
-	task_rq_unlock(rq, p, &flags);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
 	unpin_current_cpu();
 	preempt_enable();
 }