linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK

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Message-ID: <20071206144236.GB15868@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2007 07:42:36 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK_ flags

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:56:22PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 1) please change 'is' and 'task' around so that it reads nicer:
> 
>    if (task_is_stopped(t))
> 
> instead of the tongue-twister:
> 
>    if (is_task_stopped(t))

Sure, no problem.  I vacillated on this order myself.

> 2) please change task_is_loadavg() to something more sensible - i didnt 
> know what it meant when i first saw it in -mm's sched.c. 
> task_is_uninterruptible() would be the logical choice ...

It's not obvious to me that "can't be interrupted by a signal" is the
same thing as "contributes to loadavg".  Indeed, I think we would all
like to see a day where there's no such thing as an uninterruptible sleep,
but we'll still want at least some of those tasks contributing to loadavg.

You're right that task_is_loadavg() doesn't make much sense.
task_contributes_to_load() is a better name, but only marginally.

I've considered task_performing_io(), and name the corresponding bit
__TASK_PERFORMING_IO (or even just __TASK_DOING_IO or __TASK_IO), but
it's not just doing IO that makes a task contribute to loadavg.

I have no good suggestions here ;-(

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