From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:08:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: sched: remove do_div() from __sched_slice()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~1237^2~43
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4bf0b77158d581c952af237aec79d0604b78fe27;p=linux-2.6

sched: remove do_div() from __sched_slice()

Yanmin Zhang noticed a nice optimization:

  p = l * nr / nl, nl = l/g -> p = g * nr

which eliminates a do_div() from __sched_period().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 2208692dc4..10aa6e1ae3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ static u64 __sched_period(unsigned long nr_running)
 	unsigned long nr_latency = sched_nr_latency;
 
 	if (unlikely(nr_running > nr_latency)) {
+		period = sysctl_sched_min_granularity;
 		period *= nr_running;
-		do_div(period, nr_latency);
 	}
 
 	return period;