signal: retarget_shared_pending: optimize while_each_thread() loop
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:50:21 +0000 (19:50 +0200)
committerOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:01:35 +0000 (13:01 +0200)
retarget_shared_pending() blindly does recalc_sigpending_and_wake() for
every sub-thread, this is suboptimal. We can check t->blocked and stop
looping once every bit in shared_pending has the new target.

Note: we do not take task_is_stopped_or_traced(t) into account, we are
not trying to speed up the signal delivery or to avoid the unnecessary
(but harmless) signal_wake_up(0) in this unlikely case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
kernel/signal.c

index 06214b5..707736e 100644 (file)
@@ -2200,8 +2200,8 @@ relock:
 
 /*
  * It could be that complete_signal() picked us to notify about the
- * group-wide signal. Another thread should be notified now to take
- * the signal since we will not.
+ * group-wide signal. Other threads should be notified now to take
+ * the shared signals in @which since we will not.
  */
 static void retarget_shared_pending(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *which)
 {
@@ -2214,8 +2214,19 @@ static void retarget_shared_pending(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *which)
 
        t = tsk;
        while_each_thread(tsk, t) {
-               if (!signal_pending(t) && !(t->flags & PF_EXITING))
-                       recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t);
+               if (t->flags & PF_EXITING)
+                       continue;
+
+               if (!has_pending_signals(&retarget, &t->blocked))
+                       continue;
+               /* Remove the signals this thread can handle. */
+               sigandsets(&retarget, &retarget, &t->blocked);
+
+               if (!signal_pending(t))
+                       signal_wake_up(t, 0);
+
+               if (sigisemptyset(&retarget))
+                       break;
        }
 }