linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scheduler: domain: init next_balance in nohz_idle

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Message-ID: <1328024684.2446.234.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:44:44 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>
Cc:	Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@...dia.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scheduler: domain: init next_balance in
 nohz_idle_balancer with jiffies

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 14:44 +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> From: Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@...dia.com>
> 
> The next_balance parameter of nohz_idle_balancer should be initialized
> to jiffies since jiffies itself is initialized to 300 seconds shy of
> overflow. Otherwise, nohz_idle_balancer does not run for the first 5
> mins after bootup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Frid <afrid@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Boonstoppel <pboonstoppel@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Satya Popuri <spopuri@...dia.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

You'll find that this file no longer exists...

> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index b5efd6c..d3f291f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -8383,6 +8383,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
>  	atomic_set(&nohz.load_balancer, nr_cpu_ids);
>  	atomic_set(&nohz.first_pick_cpu, nr_cpu_ids);
>  	atomic_set(&nohz.second_pick_cpu, nr_cpu_ids);
> +	nohz.next_balance = jiffies;
>  #endif
>  	/* May be allocated at isolcpus cmdline parse time */
>  	if (cpu_isolated_map == NULL)

Not does this code section..
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