linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Introduce sched_entity::dont

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:09:51 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Hartsock <hartsjc@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Introduce sched_entity::dont_balance

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 05:59:29PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:28:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Never use bool in structures.
> 
> ok, but I couldn't find anything real sinister about that..
> so why is that? ;-)

C does not define sizeof(bool) :-)

Obviously any implementation must, but you then get implementation
defined layout differences in your structures, which is crap.