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-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e4a5888549a..e60786eb731 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1406,7 +1406,16 @@ static int wake_idle(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
struct sched_domain *sd;
int i;
- if (idle_cpu(cpu))
+ /*
+ * If it is idle, then it is the best cpu to run this task.
+ *
+ * This cpu is also the best, if it has more than one task already.
+ * Siblings must be also busy(in most cases) as they didn't already
+ * pickup the extra load from this cpu and hence we need not check
+ * sibling runqueue info. This will avoid the checks and cache miss
+ * penalities associated with that.
+ */
+ if (idle_cpu(cpu) || cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_running > 1)
return cpu;
for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {