On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 12:39 -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> How about consolidating the code for passing the
> nohz balancing and call it at both places.
> Something like below. Make the code more readable.
>
> Tim
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 40667cb..16f6904 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -7531,6 +7531,15 @@ out:
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
> +static inline int nohz_kick_needed(struct rq *rq);
> +
> +static void inline pass_nohz_balance(struct rq *this_rq, int this_cpu)
> +{
> + clear_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu));
> + if (nohz_kick_needed(this_rq))
> + nohz_balancer_kick();
> +}
> +
> /*
> * In CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON case, the idle balance kickee will do the
> * rebalancing for all the cpus for whom scheduler ticks are stopped.
> @@ -7542,8 +7551,10 @@ static void nohz_idle_balance(struct rq *this_rq, enum
> cpu_idle_type idle)
> int balance_cpu;
>
> if (idle != CPU_IDLE ||
> - !test_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu)))
> - goto end;
> + !test_bit(NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK, nohz_flags(this_cpu))) {
> + pass_nohz_balance(this_rq, this_cpu);
> + return;
> + }
Sure, this can make it more readable. This also avoids the need for the
goto, in addition to removing the done_balancing boolean.
Thanks,
Jason
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