linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] sched/fair: Consistent use of prev

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:24:59 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
	yuyang.du@...el.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	mgalbraith@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/13] sched/fair: Consistent use of prev_cpu in
 wakeup path

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 10:56 +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> I think that would lead to some minor changes in behaviour in a few
> corner cases, but I mainly wrote the patch as I thought it was very
> confusing that we could have different "prev_cpu"s in different parts
> of
> the select_task_rq_fair() code path.
> 
I agree that cleaning up the confusion is good.

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