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Date:	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:05 +0530
From:	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] sched: unified sched_powersavings sysfs
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> [2012-01-25 16:10:13]:

> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 21:52 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> > @@ -6150,10 +6150,8 @@ SD_INIT_FUNC(CPU)
> >   SD_INIT_FUNC(ALLNODES)
> >   SD_INIT_FUNC(NODE)
> >  #endif
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_POWERSAVE
> >   SD_INIT_FUNC(SIBLING)
> > -#endif
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_MC
> >   SD_INIT_FUNC(MC)
> >  #endif
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK
> > @@ -6250,7 +6248,7 @@ static void claim_allocations(int cpu, struct sched_domain *sd)
> >                 *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sgp, cpu) = NULL;
> >  }
> >  
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_POWERSAVE
> >  static const struct cpumask *cpu_smt_mask(int cpu)
> >  {
> >         return topology_thread_cpumask(cpu);
> > @@ -6261,10 +6259,8 @@ static const struct cpumask *cpu_smt_mask(int cpu)
> >   * Topology list, bottom-up.
> >   */
> >  static struct sched_domain_topology_level default_topology[] = {
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_POWERSAVE
> >         { sd_init_SIBLING, cpu_smt_mask, },
> > -#endif
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_MC
> >         { sd_init_MC, cpu_coregroup_mask, },
> >  #endif
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK 
> 
> I don't like this either, SCHED_{MC,SMT} here have nothing to do with
> powersavings, its topology support.
 
Yes, but we don't need these domains for any other purpose other than
powersave balance.  The code overheads are not high,  I will remove
the config option and check.

--Vaidy

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