Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: terminate newidle balancing once atleast one task has moved over

From: Gregory Haskins
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 08:45:59 EST


>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:00 AM, in message
<200807081500.18245.nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nick Piggin
<nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 June 2008 06:29, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> Inspired by Peter Zijlstra.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> What happened to the feedback I sent about this?
>
> It is still nack from me.

Ah yes. Slipped through the cracks...sorry about that.

What if we did "if (idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && need_resched())" instead?

-Greg

>
>
>> ---
>>
>> kernel/sched.c | 4 ++++
>> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
>> index 56722b1..0b9f90e 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
>> @@ -2863,6 +2863,10 @@ static int move_tasks(struct rq *this_rq, int
>> this_cpu, struct rq *busiest, max_load_move - total_load_moved,
>> sd, idle, all_pinned, &this_best_prio);
>> class = class->next;
>> +
>> + if (idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && this_rq->nr_running)
>> + break;
>> +
>> } while (class && max_load_move > total_load_moved);
>>
>> return total_load_moved > 0;
>>
>> --



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