Re: [PATCH 3/4] sched: Optimize tick periodic cpu load updates

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 03:23:06PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Don't bother with the whole pending tickless cpu load machinery if
> we run a tick periodic kernel. That's less job for the CPU on ticks.

Again, the changelog really could use help. Is this a pure optimization
patch? If so, do you have numbers?

> +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
> @@ -585,8 +585,10 @@ struct rq {
>  #endif
>  	#define CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX 5
>  	unsigned long cpu_load[CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX];
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> +# ifdef CONFIG_SMP

I'm not a fan of this #ifdef indenting and nothing near there uses this
style, so please don't introduce it here.

>  	unsigned long last_load_update_tick;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> +# endif
>  	u64 nohz_stamp;
>  	unsigned long nohz_flags;
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.7.0
>