Commit 8e113df
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 f2f1b44c75c4
("[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]1 parent 3144c83 commit 8e113df
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