Re: [RFC v3 1/6] Track the active utilisation

From: luca abeni
Date: Tue Oct 25 2016 - 05:29:30 EST


Hi Daniel,

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:09:52 +0200
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > +static void add_running_bw(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct
> > dl_rq *dl_rq) +{
> > + u64 se_bw = dl_se->dl_bw;
> > +
> > + dl_rq->running_bw += se_bw;
> > +}
>
> why not...
>
> static *inline*
> void add_running_bw(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct dl_rq
> *dl_rq) {
> dl_rq->running_bw += dl_se->dl_bw;
> }
>
> am I missing something?

I do not know... Maybe I am the one missing something :)
I assumed that the compiler is smart enough to inline the function (and
to avoid creating a local variable on the stack), but if there is
agreement I can change the function in this way.



Thanks,
Luca


>
> > +static void sub_running_bw(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct
> > dl_rq *dl_rq) +{
> > + u64 se_bw = dl_se->dl_bw;
> > +
> > + dl_rq->running_bw -= se_bw;
> > + if (WARN_ON(dl_rq->running_bw < 0))
> > + dl_rq->running_bw = 0;
> > +}
>
> (if I am not missing anything...)
>
> the same in the above function: use inline and remove the se_bw
> variable.
>
> -- Daniel