[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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: Christoph Lameter

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