The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 1a5d3492f8e14719184945893c610e0802c05533
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/1a5d3492f8e14719184945893c610e0802c05533
Author: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:24:23
Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:19:13 +01:00
sched: Add unlikey branch hints to several system calls
Adding an unlikely() hint on early error return paths improves the
run-time performance of several sched related system calls.
Benchmarking on an i9-12900 shows the following per system call
performance improvements:
before after improvement
sched_getattr 182.4ns 170.6ns ~6.5%
sched_setattr 284.3ns 267.6ns ~5.9%
sched_getparam 161.6ns 148.1ns ~8.4%
sched_setparam 1265.4ns 1227.6ns ~3.0%
sched_getscheduler 129.4ns 118.2ns ~8.7%
sched_setscheduler 1237.3ns 1216.7ns ~1.7%
Results are based on running 20 tests with turbo disabled (to reduce
clock freq turbo changes), with 10 second run per test based on the
number of system calls per second. The % standard deviation of the
measurements for the 20 tests was 0.05% to 0.40%, so the results are
reliable.
Tested on kernel build with gcc 14.2.1
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250219142423.45516-1-colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/sched/syscalls.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/syscalls.c b/kernel/sched/syscalls.c
index 456d339..9f40348 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/syscalls.c
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy, struct sched_param __user *param)
{
struct sched_param lparam;
- if (!param || pid < 0)
+ if (unlikely(!param || pid < 0))
return -EINVAL;
if (copy_from_user(&lparam, param, sizeof(struct sched_param)))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
struct sched_attr attr;
int retval;
- if (!uattr || pid < 0 || flags)
+ if (unlikely(!uattr || pid < 0 || flags))
return -EINVAL;
retval = sched_copy_attr(uattr, &attr);
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_getparam, pid_t, pid, struct sched_param __user *, param)
struct task_struct *p;
int retval;
- if (!param || pid < 0)
+ if (unlikely(!param || pid < 0))
return -EINVAL;
scoped_guard (rcu) {
@@ -1085,8 +1085,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(sched_getattr, pid_t, pid, struct sched_attr __user *, uattr,
struct task_struct *p;
int retval;
- if (!uattr || pid < 0 || usize > PAGE_SIZE ||
- usize < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 || flags)
+ if (unlikely(!uattr || pid < 0 || usize > PAGE_SIZE ||
+ usize < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 || flags))
return -EINVAL;
scoped_guard (rcu) {
|