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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2008-04-30 00:52:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-30 08:29:35 -0700
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signals: microoptimize the usage of ->curr_target
Suggested by Roland McGrath. Initialize signal->curr_target in copy_signal(). This way ->curr_target is never == NULL, we can kill the check in __group_complete_signal's hot path. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 17859f0d8411..0298bd3d431b 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -863,10 +863,6 @@ __group_complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p)
* Otherwise try to find a suitable thread.
*/
t = signal->curr_target;
- if (t == NULL)
- /* restart balancing at this thread */
- t = signal->curr_target = p;
-
while (!wants_signal(sig, t)) {
t = next_thread(t);
if (t == signal->curr_target)