Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] sched: remove scheduler domain naming

From: Dietmar Eggemann
Date: Mon Jan 06 2014 - 13:41:28 EST


On 20/12/13 14:08, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:11:28PM +0000, dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> In case the arch is allowed to define the conventional scheduler domain
>> topology level (i.e. the one without SD_NUMA topology flag) layout, it is
>> not feasible any more for the scheduler to name these levels. Therefore,
>> this patch gets rid of of the sched_domain_topology_level structure
>> member 'name' and the corresponding SD_INIT_NAME macro. It was only used
>> when CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG was set any way.
>
> Right, so for debug purposes it might be convenient to keep it; we could
> simply put it in the topology array, something like:
>
> { cpu_smt_mask, SD_SHARE_CPU_POWER | SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCE, SD_NAME(smt) },
>
> which would still allow us to make it go away on !debug, but does
> provide us with a nice label to print for the debug topology prints.

I will incorporate this idea in my V2 patch set.

>
> Alternatively we could do something like:
>
> #define SD_mask(name, flags) \
> { cpu_##name##_mask, (flags), .name = #name }
>
> to further reduce typing.

But the MC level cpu mask func ptr is called cpu_coregroup_mask.

-- Dietmar

>


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