On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 04:18:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > +static bool sugov_cpu_is_busy(struct sugov_cpu *sg_cpu) > +{ > + unsigned long idle_calls = tick_nohz_get_idle_calls(); > + bool not_idle = idle_calls == sg_cpu->saved_idle_calls; > + > + sg_cpu->saved_idle_calls = idle_calls; > + return not_idle && this_rq()->rd->overload; > +}
So I really don't understand the rd->overload thing. What is it supposed to do here?