From 571f6d2fb0b1c04798df783db2ba85e96bcce43d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:20:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] sched: avoid taking rq lock in wake_priority_sleeper

Avoid taking the request queue lock in wake_priority_sleeper if there are no
running processes.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 kernel/sched.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index f04add905b..fdd26fffaa 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -2915,6 +2915,9 @@ static inline int wake_priority_sleeper(struct rq *rq)
 	int ret = 0;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
+	if (!rq->nr_running)
+		return 0;
+
 	spin_lock(&rq->lock);
 	/*
 	 * If an SMT sibling task has been put to sleep for priority
-- 
2.39.5