While looking at enqueue_task_fair and dequeue_task_fair, it occurred
to me that dequeue_task_fair can also be optimized as Vincent described
in commit 7d148be69e3a ("sched/fair: Optimize enqueue_task_fair()").

When encountering throttled cfs_rq, dequeue_throttle label can ensure
se not to be NULL, and rq->nr_running remains unchanged, so we can also
skip the early balance check.

Signed-off-by: Peng Wang <rock...@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index cbcb2f7..05242b7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5614,14 +5614,14 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct 
task_struct *p, int flags)
 
        }
 
-dequeue_throttle:
-       if (!se)
-               sub_nr_running(rq, 1);
+       /* At this point se is NULL and we are at root level*/
+       sub_nr_running(rq, 1);
 
        /* balance early to pull high priority tasks */
        if (unlikely(!was_sched_idle && sched_idle_rq(rq)))
                rq->next_balance = jiffies;
 
+dequeue_throttle:
        util_est_dequeue(&rq->cfs, p, task_sleep);
        hrtick_update(rq);
 }
-- 
2.9.5

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