linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] sched: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API

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Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:04:15 +0900
From:   Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...nel.org
Cc:     ying.huang@...el.com, oleg@...hat.com, shli@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] sched: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing
 llist API

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 04:26:29PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> Although llist provides proper APIs, they are not used. Make them used.

Hello,

What do you think?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/core.c | 15 +++------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index d01f9d0..8938125 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ void sched_ttwu_pending(void)
>  {
>  	struct rq *rq = this_rq();
>  	struct llist_node *llist = llist_del_all(&rq->wake_list);
> -	struct task_struct *p;
> +	struct task_struct *p, *t;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	struct rq_flags rf;
>  
> @@ -1783,17 +1783,8 @@ void sched_ttwu_pending(void)
>  	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rq->lock, flags);
>  	rq_pin_lock(rq, &rf);
>  
> -	while (llist) {
> -		int wake_flags = 0;
> -
> -		p = llist_entry(llist, struct task_struct, wake_entry);
> -		llist = llist_next(llist);
> -
> -		if (p->sched_remote_wakeup)
> -			wake_flags = WF_MIGRATED;
> -
> -		ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, wake_flags, &rf);
> -	}
> +	llist_for_each_entry_safe(p, t, llist, wake_entry)
> +		ttwu_do_activate(rq, p, p->sched_remote_wakeup ? WF_MIGRATED : 0, &rf);
>  
>  	rq_unpin_lock(rq, &rf);
>  	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
> -- 
> 1.9.1