Re: [patch 02/15] sched: hierarchical task accounting for SCHED_OTHER

[Hidetoshi Seto]

Some typos in the description.

(2011/05/03 18:28), Paul Turner wrote:
> Introduce hierarchal task accounting for the group scheduling case in CFS, as

            hierarchical 

> well as promoting the responsibility for maintaining rq->nr_running to the
> scheduling classes.
> 
> The primary motivation for this is that with scheduling classes supporting
> bandwidht throttling it is possible for entities participating in trottled

  bandwidth                                                         throttled

> sub-trees to not have root visible changes in rq->nr_running across activate
> and de-activate operations.  This in turn leads to incorrect idle and 
> weight-per-task load balance decisions.
> 
> This also allows us to make a small fixlet to the fastpath in pick_next_task()
> under group scheduling.
> 
> Note: this issue also exists with the existing sched_rt throttling mechanism.
> This patch does not address that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---

The patch is good.

Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
H.Seto

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