linux-kernel - [patch v4 02/18] sched: select_task_rq

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Message-Id: <1358996820-23036-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:06:44 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, arjan@...ux.intel.com, bp@...en8.de,
	pjt@...gle.com, namhyung@...nel.org, efault@....de
Cc:	vincent.guittot@...aro.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, viresh.kumar@...aro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alex.shi@...el.com
Subject: [patch v4 02/18] sched: select_task_rq_fair clean up

It is impossible to miss a task allowed cpu in a eligible group.

And since find_idlest_group only return a different group which
excludes old cpu, it's also impossible to find a new cpu same as old
cpu.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 5eea870..6d3a95d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3378,11 +3378,6 @@ select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int sd_flag, int wake_flags)
 		}
 
 		new_cpu = find_idlest_cpu(group, p, cpu);
-		if (new_cpu == -1 || new_cpu == cpu) {
-			/* Now try balancing at a lower domain level of cpu */
-			sd = sd->child;
-			continue;
-		}
 
 		/* Now try balancing at a lower domain level of new_cpu */
 		cpu = new_cpu;
-- 
1.7.12

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