linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] sched: move content out of core files for load average

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Message-ID: <51701722.1070407@windriver.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:54:10 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] sched: move content out of core files for load
 average

On 13-04-18 07:14 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 11:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Recent activity has had a focus on moving functionally related blocks of stuff 
>>> out of sched/core.c into stand-alone files.  The code relating to load average 
>>> calculations has grown significantly enough recently to warrant placing it in a 
>>> separate file.
>>>
>>> Here we do that, and in doing so, we shed ~20k of code from sched/core.c (~10%).
>>>
>>> A couple small static functions in the core sched.h header were also localized 
>>> to their singular user in sched/fair.c at the same time, with the goal to also 
>>> reduce the amount of "broadcast" content in that sched.h file.
>>
>> Nice!
>>
>> Peter, is this (and the naming of the new file) fine with you too?
> 
> Yes and no.. that is I do like the change, but I don't like the
> filename. We have _waaaay_ too many different things we call load_avg.
> 
> That said, I'm having a somewhat hard time coming up with a coherent
> alternative :/

Several of the relocated functions start their name with "calc_load..."
Does "calc_load.c" sound any better?

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