Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 7 authors, 2013-03-30

Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] sched: Create sched_select_cpu() to give preferred CPU for power saving

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: 2013-03-19 13:22:28
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Subsystem: scheduler, the rest · Maintainers: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Juri Lelli, Vincent Guittot, Linus Torvalds

On 19 March 2013 18:22, Viresh Kumar [off-list ref] wrote:
On 19 March 2013 18:00, Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Why not leave out the sd_flags argument and introduce it once you start
using it; at which point we can argue on the interface.
Yes, that can be done. Will fix it up.
Fixup:

commit 77927939224520cbb0ac47270d3458bedffe42c4
Author: Viresh Kumar [off-list ref]
Date:   Tue Mar 19 18:50:37 2013 +0530

    fixup! sched: Create sched_select_non_idle_cpu() to give preferred
CPU for power saving
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 6 +++---
 kernel/sched/core.c   | 6 +-----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index db6655a..37eb1dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -231,9 +231,9 @@ extern void init_idle_bootup_task(struct task_struct *idle);
 extern int runqueue_is_locked(int cpu);

 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-extern int sched_select_non_idle_cpu(unsigned int sd_flags);
+extern int sched_select_non_idle_cpu(void);
 #else
-static inline int sched_select_non_idle_cpu(unsigned int sd_flags)
+static inline int sched_select_non_idle_cpu(void)
 {
        return smp_processor_id();
 }
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ extern void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void);
  * selecting an idle cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended
  * (as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc).
  */
-#define get_nohz_timer_target() sched_select_non_idle_cpu(0)
+#define get_nohz_timer_target() sched_select_non_idle_cpu()
 #else
 static inline void nohz_balance_enter_idle(int cpu) { }
 static inline void set_cpu_sd_state_idle(void) { }
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 0265a5e..f597d2b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ void sched_avg_update(struct rq *rq)
  * returned back. If it is idle, then we must look for another CPU which have
  * all the flags passed as argument as set.
  */
-int sched_select_non_idle_cpu(unsigned int sd_flags)
+int sched_select_non_idle_cpu(void)
 {
        struct sched_domain *sd;
        int cpu = smp_processor_id();
@@ -639,10 +639,6 @@ int sched_select_non_idle_cpu(unsigned int sd_flags)

        rcu_read_lock();
        for_each_domain(cpu, sd) {
-                /* If sd doesnt' have sd_flags set skip sd. */
-               if ((sd->flags & sd_flags) != sd_flags)
-                       continue;
-
                for_each_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sd)) {
                        if (i == cpu)
                                continue;
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