Re: [PATCH 3/7] sched: refactor try_to_wake_up()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 - 04:53:02 EST


Hello,

On 12/02/2009 06:05 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 12:56 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Factor ttwu_activate() and ttwu_woken_up() out of try_to_wake_up().
>
> Nit: ttwu_woken_up() sounds decidedly strange to my ear. Perhaps
> ttwu_post_activation()?

Sure, I can rename it.

> As a $.02 comment, factoring here doesn't look nice, reader scrolls
> around whereas he currently sees all the why/wherefore at a glance.
> Needing to pass three booleans for stats also looks bad.

The three bools aren't the prettiest thing in the world but I couldn't
prevent gcc from re-evaluating expressions without those.

> I think it would _look_ better with the thing just
> duplicated/stripped down and called what it is,
> sched_notifier_wakeup() or such.

Sorry, I'm not following. Can you elaborate a bit?

> Which leaves growth in it's wake though...
>
>> +/**
>> * try_to_wake_up - wake up a thread
>> * @p: the to-be-woken-up thread
>
> Nit: thread to be awakened sounds better.

Will update.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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