Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Sep 08 2016 - 04:01:21 EST


On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 01:33:38PM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -532,6 +532,17 @@ struct dl_rq {
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>
> +static inline bool sched_asym_prefer(int a, int b)
> +{
> + return arch_asym_cpu_priority(a) > arch_asym_cpu_priority(b);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Return lowest numbered cpu in the group as the most preferred cpu
> + * for ASYM_PACKING for default case.
> + */
> +#define group_priority_cpu(group) group->asym_prefer_cpu
> +

Both these are no longer used outside of sched/fair.c, and should
probably be moved there. Also the later has no reason for being a macro.