linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE

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Message-ID: <1432810664.3237.135.camel@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 12:57:44 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
Cc:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, "riel@...hat.com" <riel@...hat.com>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for
 BALANCE_WAKE

On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 10:49 +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:

> Isn't sd == NULL is most cases if you don't move the sd assignment
> before the affine_sd assignment?

sd will usually be NULL regardless of where the assignment is, as
SD_BALANCE_WAKE is usually off in ->flags.  Josef is turning it on.

	-Mike

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