Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Clean up comment in nohz_idle_balance()

[Vincent Guittot]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 12:01, Andrea Parri
<andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Concerning the comment associated to the atomic_fetch_andnot() in
> nohz_idle_balance(), Vincent explains [1]:
>
>   "[...] the comment is useless and can be removed [...]  it was
>    referring to a line code above the comment that was present in
>    a previous iteration of the patchset. This line disappeared in
>    final version but the comment has stayed."
>
> So remove the comment.
>
> Vincent also points out that the full ordering associated to the
> atomic_fetch_andnot() primitive could be relaxed, but this patch
> insists on the current more conservative/fully ordered solution:
>
> "Performance" isn't a concern, stay away from "correctness"/subtle
> relaxed (re)ordering if possible..., just make sure not to confuse
> the next reader with misleading/out-of-date comments.
>
> [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAKfTPtBjA-oCBRkO6__npQwL3+HLjzk7riCcPU1R7YdO-EpuZg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Suggested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me

> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index ac855b2f47746..db514993565b2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -9533,9 +9533,7 @@ static bool nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum cpu_idle_type idle)
>                 return false;
>         }
>
> -       /*
> -        * barrier, pairs with nohz_balance_enter_idle(), ensures ...
> -        */
> +       /* could be _relaxed() */
>         flags = atomic_fetch_andnot(NOHZ_KICK_MASK, nohz_flags(this_cpu));
>         if (!(flags & NOHZ_KICK_MASK))
>                 return false;
> --
> 2.17.1
>