linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] sched: balance_cpu to consider other cpus in its group as target of (pinned) task

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:34:19 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	mingo@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	roland@...nel.org, efault@....de, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sched: balance_cpu to consider other cpus in its
 group as target of (pinned) task

On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 09:10 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:

> Hmm ..I can see loop_break being incremented here:
> 
>                 /* take a breather every nr_migrate tasks */
>                 if (env->loop > env->loop_break) {
>                         env->loop_break += sched_nr_migrate_break;
>                         env->flags |= LBF_NEED_BREAK;
>                         goto out;
>                 }
> 
> As a result, when we redo with a different src_cpu, both loop and
> loop_break could be at non-default values.  Am I missing something here?

D'0h right you are.. /me quickly edits patch again.

I thought I removed all that, guess I didn't.
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