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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-08-09 11:16:51 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-08-09 11:16:51 +0200
commit194081ebfaa8c7d16133e08dd79254910c20c6ff (patch)
treeba4d26c12614c93694fa67dd4003e243fe546e6c /kernel
parent254753dc321ea2b753ca9bc58ac329557a20efac (diff)
downloadlinux-194081ebfaa8c7d16133e08dd79254910c20c6ff.tar.gz
sched: round a bit better
round a tiny bit better in high-frequency rescheduling scenarios,
by rounding around zero instead of rounding down.

(this is pretty theoretical though)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 5470ab0258a8..b0afd8db1396 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -638,6 +638,11 @@ static u64 div64_likely32(u64 divident, unsigned long divisor)
 
 #define WMULT_SHIFT	32
 
+/*
+ * Shift right and round:
+ */
+#define RSR(x, y) (((x) + (1UL << ((y) - 1))) >> (y))
+
 static unsigned long
 calc_delta_mine(unsigned long delta_exec, unsigned long weight,
 		struct load_weight *lw)
@@ -645,18 +650,17 @@ calc_delta_mine(unsigned long delta_exec, unsigned long weight,
 	u64 tmp;
 
 	if (unlikely(!lw->inv_weight))
-		lw->inv_weight = WMULT_CONST / lw->weight;
+		lw->inv_weight = (WMULT_CONST - lw->weight/2) / lw->weight + 1;
 
 	tmp = (u64)delta_exec * weight;
 	/*
 	 * Check whether we'd overflow the 64-bit multiplication:
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(tmp > WMULT_CONST)) {
-		tmp = ((tmp >> WMULT_SHIFT/2) * lw->inv_weight)
-				>> (WMULT_SHIFT/2);
-	} else {
-		tmp = (tmp * lw->inv_weight) >> WMULT_SHIFT;
-	}
+	if (unlikely(tmp > WMULT_CONST))
+		tmp = RSR(RSR(tmp, WMULT_SHIFT/2) * lw->inv_weight,
+			WMULT_SHIFT/2);
+	else
+		tmp = RSR(tmp * lw->inv_weight, WMULT_SHIFT);
 
 	return (unsigned long)min(tmp, (u64)(unsigned long)LONG_MAX);
 }