linux-kernel - Re: possible migration bug with hotplug cpu

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Message-Id: <1247145352.8019.5.camel@twins>
Date:	Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:15:52 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible migration bug with hotplug cpu

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 14:55 +0200, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 14:24, Peter Zijlstra<peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > One of the things I have wanted to do for a long time is to rename
> > sched_entity to sched_fair_entity, and do something like:
> >
> > struct sched_entity {
> >        struct sched_common_entity       common;
> >
> >        union {
> >                struct sched_fair_entity fair;
> >                struct sched_rt_entity   rt;
> >        };
> > };
> >
> > I imagine we can add struct sched_statistics to the end of this as well.
> >
> > The reason I haven't come around to doing this is that it takes a bit of
> > time to refactor the code and find all the common bits. So its been on
> > my todo list like forever.
> >
> > Can I persuade you to look at this? :-)
> 
> It looks like a very good idea. As you told, it will take a time to refactor
> the code. I can look at this, but only on the end of next week.

Sure no hurry, its been without that for like forever, so a few more
weeks won't harm anybody, thanks!

> > I'll queue the below, can I add:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
> >
> > ?
> 
> Sure. I'm not very habituated yet with it... do I re-send the email
> or you add it by yourself?

I've added it, simply remember to add that for future patches :-)
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