2013/3/20 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>: > On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 16:33 +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > >> > Right, so I'm not so taken with this one. The whole load stuff really >> > is a balance heuristic that's part of move_tasks(), move_one_task() >> > really doesn't care about that. >> > >> > So why did you include it? Purely so you didn't have to re-order the >> > tests? I don't see any reason not to flip a tests around. >> >> I think that I'm not fully understand what you are concerning, because of >> my poor English. If possible, please elaborate on a problem in more detail. > > OK, so your initial Changelog said it wanted to remove some code > duplication between move_tasks() and move_one_task(); but then you put > in the load heuristics and add a boolean argument to only enable those > for move_tasks() -- so clearly that wasn't duplicated. > > So why move that code.. I proposed that this was due a reluctance to > re-arrange the various tests that stop the migration from happening. > > Now you say: > >> ... Just moving up can_migrate_task() above >> load evaluation code may raise side effect, because can_migrate_task() have >> other checking which is 'cache hottness'. I don't want a side effect. So >> embedding load evaluation to can_migrate_task() and re-order checking and >> makes load evaluation disabled for move_one_task(). > > Which pretty much affirms this. However I also said that I don't think > the order really matters that much; each test will cancel the migration > of this task; the order of these tests seem immaterial. > >> If your recommandation is to move up can_mirate_task() above >> load evaluation code, yes, I can, and will do that. :) > > I would actually propose moving the throttled test into > can_migrate_task() and leave it at that.
Okay. I will do that in next spin. Thanks!! > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/