Re: [PATCH resend 2/8] sched: core scheduling tagging infrastructure

[Josh Don]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:55 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> OK, fixed the fails. My tired head made it unconditionally return the
> cookie-id of 'current' instead of task. Pushed out an update.

I see you have the per-task and prctl stuff pulled into your tree. I
can rebase the compound cookie and cgroup api patches on top if you'd
like; not sure if you've already re-ordered it locally. Any other
comments on the former?

> > > Also, we really need a better name than coretag.c.
> >
> > Yea, we don't really otherwise use the phrase "tagging". core_sched.c
> > is probably too confusing given we have sched/core.c.
>
> Right, so I tried core_sched and my fingers already hate it as much as
> kernel/scftorture.c (which I'd assumed my fingers would get used to
> eventually, but noooo).
>
> Looking at kernel/sched/ C is very overrepresented, so we really don't
> want another I think. B, E, G, H, J, K, N, seem to still be available in
> the first half of the alphabet. Maybe, bonghits.c, gabbleduck.c ?

hardware_vuln.c? Tricky to avoid a C with cpu, core, and cookie :)