Linus Torvalds 55d8538498 Fix performance regression on lmbench select benchmark ...

Christian Borntraeger reported that reinstating cond_resched() with
CONFIG_PREEMPT caused a performance regression on lmbench:

	For example select file 500:
	23 microseconds
	32 microseconds

and that's really because we totally unnecessarily do the cond_resched()
in the innermost loop of select(), which is just silly.

This moves it out from the innermost loop (which only ever loops ove the
bits in a single "unsigned long" anyway), which makes the performance
regression go away.

Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2008-06-22 12:23:15 -07:00

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