Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Introduce sched_entity::dont_balance

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Jun 20 2016 - 12:02:05 EST


On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:28:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:15:11PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > Adding dont_balance bool into struct sched_entity,
> > to mark tasks which are rebalanced based on affinity.
> >
> > It's used only when REBALANCE_AFFINITY feature is
> > switched on. The code functionality of this feature
> > is introduced in following patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++
> > kernel/sched/fair.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
> > kernel/sched/features.h | 1 +
> > 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> > index dee41bf59e6b..0e6ac882283b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> > @@ -1331,6 +1331,8 @@ struct sched_entity {
> >
> > u64 nr_migrations;
> >
> > + bool dont_balance;
>
> Never use bool in structures.

ok, but I couldn't find anything real sinister about that..
so why is that? ;-)

thanks,
jirka