linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] sched: Move idle

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Message-ID: <52FC79DF.9060204@linaro.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:53:03 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>, peterz@...radead.org,
	mingo@...nel.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] sched: Move idle_stamp up to the core

On 02/07/2014 07:10 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> The idle_balance modifies the idle_stamp field of the rq, making this
> information to be shared across core.c and fair.c. As we can know if the
> cpu is going to idle or not with the previous patch, let's encapsulate the
> idle_stamp information in core.c by moving it up to the caller. The
> idle_balance function returns true in case a balancing occured and the cpu
> won't be idle, false if no balance happened and the cpu is going idle.
> 
> Cc: mingo@...nel.org
> Cc: alex.shi@...aro.org
> Cc: peterz@...radead.org
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>



-- 
Thanks
    Alex
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