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ZhongqiuHan-QcomPeter Zijlstra
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sched: idle: Optimize the generic idle loop by removing needless memory barrier
The memory barrier rmb() in generic idle loop do_idle() function is not needed, it doesn't order any load instruction, just remove it as needless rmb() can cause performance impact. The rmb() was introduced by the tglx/history.git commit f2f1b44 ("[PATCH] Remove RCU abuse in cpu_idle()") to order the loads between cpu_idle_map and pm_idle. It pairs with wmb() in function cpu_idle_wait(). And then with the removal of cpu_idle_state in function cpu_idle() and wmb() in function cpu_idle_wait() in commit 783e391 ("x86: Simplify cpu_idle_wait"), rmb() no longer has a reason to exist. After that, commit d166991 ("idle: Implement generic idle function") implemented a generic idle function cpu_idle_loop() which resembles the functionality found in arch/. And it retained the rmb() in generic idle loop in file kernel/cpu/idle.c. And at last, commit cf37b6b ("sched/idle: Move cpu/idle.c to sched/idle.c") moved cpu/idle.c to sched/idle.c. And commit c1de45c ("sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle") renamed function cpu_idle_loop() to do_idle(). History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git Signed-off-by: Zhongqiu Han <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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tick_nohz_idle_enter();
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while (!need_resched()) {
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/*
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* Interrupts shouldn't be re-enabled from that point on until

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