Re: [PATCH 0/6] Some load-balancer cleanups

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Dec 18 2009 - 01:58:28 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since RT has since grown its own load-balancer which is totally independent
> from CFS, we can remove some of the left-overs from back when.
>
> Gets rid of the ->load_balance and ->move_one_task sched_class calls and
> removed the rq_iterator stuff.
>
> Also carries a lock-break recently found wanted by -rt.
>
> Compile tested with CGROUP/SMP/UP and booted on x86_64-SMP.
>
> include/linux/sched.h | 8 -
> kernel/sched.c | 1945 ++---------------------------------------------
> kernel/sched_fair.c | 1778 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> kernel/sched_idletask.c | 21 -
> kernel/sched_rt.c | 20 -
> 5 files changed, 1805 insertions(+), 1967 deletions(-)

Nice cleanups! I think we want to delay its application to the scheduler tree
for a week or two, to not interact with any urgent fixes for the .33 code.

Thanks,

Ingo
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