linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] sched/fair: Use HK_TYPE

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Message-ID: <20240818234520.90186-3-longman@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:45:19 -0400
From: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] sched/fair: Use HK_TYPE_SCHED housekeeping CPUs

As the previous commit has enabled the setting of HK_TYPE_SCHED
housekeeping CPUs in nohz_full setup, we can now use the more aptly
named HK_TYPE_SCHED housekeeping CPUs instead of HK_TYPE_MISC.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6be618110885..0350667f5ce8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -12128,16 +12128,13 @@ static inline int on_null_domain(struct rq *rq)
  * - When one of the busy CPUs notices that there may be an idle rebalancing
  *   needed, they will kick the idle load balancer, which then does idle
  *   load balancing for all the idle CPUs.
- *
- * - HK_TYPE_MISC CPUs are used for this task, because HK_TYPE_SCHED is not set
- *   anywhere yet.
  */
 static inline int find_new_ilb(void)
 {
 	const struct cpumask *hk_mask;
 	int ilb_cpu;
 
-	hk_mask = housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_MISC);
+	hk_mask = housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_SCHED);
 
 	for_each_cpu_and(ilb_cpu, nohz.idle_cpus_mask, hk_mask) {
 
@@ -12155,7 +12152,7 @@ static inline int find_new_ilb(void)
  * Kick a CPU to do the NOHZ balancing, if it is time for it, via a cross-CPU
  * SMP function call (IPI).
  *
- * We pick the first idle CPU in the HK_TYPE_MISC housekeeping set (if there is one).
+ * We pick the first idle CPU in the HK_TYPE_SCHED housekeeping set (if there is one).
  */
 static void kick_ilb(unsigned int flags)
 {
-- 
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