linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: fix rework of find_idlest

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Message-ID: <08220a1c-5f31-75ff-4f07-25c45ccc8a14@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:03:39 +0000
From:   Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@....com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Parth Shah <parth@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: fix rework of find_idlest_group()

On 25/11/2019 09:16, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> 
> This is an extension of idle_cpu which also returns int and I wanted
> to stay consistent with it
> 
> So we might want to make some kind of cleanup or rewording of
> interfaces and their descriptions but this should be done as  a whole
> and out of the scope of this patch and would worth having a dedicated
> patch IMO because it would imply to modify other patch of the code
> that is not covered by this patch like idle_cpu or cpu_util_without
> 

Fair enough.