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| author |   Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2006-12-13 00:35:45 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-12-13 09:05:55 -0800 |
| commit | cd7175edf963a92b2c3cd491d3e34afd357e7284 (patch) | |
| tree | 72c0445ef456f005e26d04568b5a07e8ed95e084 /drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] knfsd: Fix up some bit-rot in exp_export (diff) | |
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[PATCH] Optimize calc_load()
calc_load() is called by timer interrupt to update avenrun[]. It currently
calls nr_active() at each timer tick (HZ per second), while the update of
avenrun[] is done only once every 5 seconds. (LOAD_FREQ=5 Hz)
nr_active() is quite expensive on SMP machines, since it has to sum up
nr_running and nr_uninterruptible of all online CPUS, bringing foreign
dirty cache lines.
This patch is an optimization of calc_load() so that nr_active() is called
only if we need it.
The use of unlikely() is welcome since the condition is true only once every
5*HZ time.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_ap.c')
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