linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][ 3/5] sched: implement staircase deadline cpu scheduler

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:47:23 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>
Cc:	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ 3/5] sched: implement staircase deadline cpu scheduler

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:10:39 +1100 Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org> wrote:

> +	DECLARE_BITMAP(bitmap, PRIO_RANGE + 1);
> +	/*
> +	 * This bitmap shows what priorities this task has received quota
> +	 * from for this major priority rotation on its current runqueue.
> +	 */
>  	struct prio_array *array;
> +	unsigned long rotation;
> +	/* Which major runqueue rotation did this task run */
>  
>  	unsigned short ioprio;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
>  	unsigned int btrace_seq;
>  #endif
> -	unsigned long sleep_avg;
>  	unsigned long long timestamp, last_ran;
>  	unsigned long long sched_time; /* sched_clock time spent running */
> -	enum sleep_type sleep_type;
>  
>  	unsigned long policy;
>  	cpumask_t cpus_allowed;
> -	unsigned int time_slice, first_time_slice;
> +	int time_slice;
> +	/*
> +	 * How much this task is entitled to run at the current priority
> +	 * before being requeued at a lower priority.
> +	 */
> +	unsigned int first_time_slice;
> +	/* Is this the very first time_slice this task has ever run. */
> +	int quota;
> +	/* How much this task receives at each priority level */

This is nuts.  Nobody puts the description of the fields _below_ those fields.

I fixed it in my copy (while fixing the usual reject storm).  Please fix it
in your tree, wherever it occurs.

Weird.
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