Re: [RFC PATCH v5 7/7] sched: idle_balance() does not callload_balance_newidle()

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Mon Dec 15 2008 - 02:04:21 EST


* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-12-11 23:13:23]:

> load_balance_newidle() does not get called if SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
> is set at higher level domain (3-CPU) and not in low level domain
> (2-MC).
>
> pulled_task is initialised to -1 and checked for non-zero which
> is always true if the lowest level sched_domain does not have
> SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag set.
>
> Trivial fix to initialise pulled_task to zero.
>

This is already pulled in for 2.6.29, so I am not reviewing it. We can
drop it from the next patch series.

--
Balbir
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