linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: code cleanup - sd_power_saving_flags(), sd_balance_for_mc/package

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Message-Id: <1234806181.30178.183.camel@laptop>
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:43:01 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, balbir@...ibm.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, efault@....de, andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: code cleanup - sd_power_saving_flags(),
 sd_balance_for_mc/package_power()

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 22:21 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:

> +enum sched_domain_level {
> +	SD_LV_NONE = 0,
> +	SD_LV_SIBLING,
> +	SD_LV_MC,
> +	SD_LV_CPU,
> +	SD_LV_NODE,
> +	SD_LV_ALLNODES,
> +	SD_LV_MAX
> +};


Better names would be:

 LV_THREAD
 LV_CORE
 LV_PACKAGE
 LV_NODE

But I realize that renaming these is going to be painful, however could
we at least provide proper comments with these to describe them. I
always get confused.


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