Re: [PATCH 38/63] sched: Introduce migrate_swap()

[Rik van Riel]

On 10/07/2013 06:29 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Use the new stop_two_cpus() to implement migrate_swap(), a function that
> flips two tasks between their respective cpus.
> 
> I'm fairly sure there's a less crude way than employing the stop_two_cpus()
> method, but everything I tried either got horribly fragile and/or complex. So
> keep it simple for now.
> 
> The notable detail is how we 'migrate' tasks that aren't runnable
> anymore. We'll make it appear like we migrated them before they went to
> sleep. The sole difference is the previous cpu in the wakeup path, so we
> override this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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