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Message-Id: <1259804667.7691.19.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:44:27 +0100
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] f83f9ac causes tasks running at MAX_PRIO
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:25 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> On 02/12/09 22:49, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Hysterical reasons? That might have been a doorstop conversion kit for
> > O(1), but boots fine with CFS, and prio 40 tasks are history.
>
> In my (not so) humble opinion, there is still a lot of unnecessary cruft
> in sched.c that should have been removed as the final (clean up) stage
> of implementing CFS (i.e. stuff that was needed for O(1) but no longer
> serves a useful purpose). I know that the extra overhead of this code
> is probably inconsequential (and the compiler may even optimize some of
> it away) but it looks untidy and makes the code harder to understand.
>
> Recent patches that I've submitted were intended as a start to removing
> some of this cruft and I had intended to send more patches after they
> were accepted. I figured that it was better to do it as a number of
> small changes rather than one big one. Should I continue?
Certainly.
-Mike
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