linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] sched: unified sched

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Message-ID: <1327504213.2614.78.camel@laptop>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:10:13 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] sched: unified sched_powersavings sysfs
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On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 21:52 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> @@ -6150,10 +6150,8 @@ SD_INIT_FUNC(CPU)
>   SD_INIT_FUNC(ALLNODES)
>   SD_INIT_FUNC(NODE)
>  #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_POWERSAVE
>   SD_INIT_FUNC(SIBLING)
> -#endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_MC
>   SD_INIT_FUNC(MC)
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK
> @@ -6250,7 +6248,7 @@ static void claim_allocations(int cpu, struct sched_domain *sd)
>                 *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sgp, cpu) = NULL;
>  }
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_POWERSAVE
>  static const struct cpumask *cpu_smt_mask(int cpu)
>  {
>         return topology_thread_cpumask(cpu);
> @@ -6261,10 +6259,8 @@ static const struct cpumask *cpu_smt_mask(int cpu)
>   * Topology list, bottom-up.
>   */
>  static struct sched_domain_topology_level default_topology[] = {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_POWERSAVE
>         { sd_init_SIBLING, cpu_smt_mask, },
> -#endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_MC
>         { sd_init_MC, cpu_coregroup_mask, },
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK 

I don't like this either, SCHED_{MC,SMT} here have nothing to do with
powersavings, its topology support.



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