linux-kernel - Re: scheduler oddity [bug?]

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Message-Id: <1236571851.15543.13.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:10:51 +0100
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@...abit.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: scheduler oddity [bug?]

On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:55 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> btw., there's room for a cleanup + micro-optimization here too: 
> it would be nice to change se.last_wakeup and 
> se.prev_sum_exec_runtime to be the same variable, 
> se.prev_timestamp or so.

I don't see how they can meld without breaking check_preempt_tick() all
to pieces.

	-Mike

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