Re: [PATCH 1/4 tip/sched/core] sched: rename preempt_notifier tosched_notifier and always enable it

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Nov 27 2009 - 01:16:49 EST


11/27/2009 03:13 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> My position on this is rather clear: i want no new callbacks and no
>>> changes to callbacks in the scheduler until this situation is cleaned
>>> up. Five callback sites are _way_ too much - so if you want to add
>>> callbacks or change them, please clean it up and improve it first.
>>
>> Even changes which cause no functional differences? [...]
>
> Such as enabling preempt notifiers unconditionally? That's a functional
> change - it turns a so-far optional callback into an essentially
> mandatory one.

No, I'm not gonna do that. Just patches to reorganize code so that
unnecessary conflicts won't occur. There will be NO functional
changes.

--
tejun
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