linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] sched: Distinguish between idle

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Date:   Wed, 9 May 2018 10:51:05 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Rohit Jain <rohit.k.jain@...cle.com>
Cc:     matt@...eblueprint.co.uk, mingo@...nel.org,
        dhaval.giani@...cle.com, subhra.mazumdar@...cle.com,
        steven.sistare@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: Distinguish between idle_cpu calls based on desired
 effect

On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 04:41:17PM -0700, Rohit Jain wrote:
> In commit 247f2f6f3c706b40b5f3886646f3eb53671258bf we distinguish
> between idle_cpu when the vcpu is not running for scheduling threads.
> However, idle_cpu function is used at other places for actually checking
> whether the state of the CPU is idle or not. Hence splitting the use of
> that function based on the desired return value.

Yes, that looks OK.

for your gitconfig:

[core]
	abbrev = 12
[alias]
        one = show -s --pretty='format:%h (\"%s\")'

$ git one 247f2f6f3c706b40b5f3886646f3eb53671258bf
247f2f6f3c70 ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs")

which gives the normal commit quote style.