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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:52:03 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] sched: introduce nr_running_this_cpu() * Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote: > This patch introduces a helper nr_running_this_cpu() to return the > number of runnable processes in current cpu. > > The first user will be net rx busy polling. It will use this to exit > the busy loop when it finds more than one processes is runnable in > current cpu. This can give us better performance of busy polling under > heavy load. s/one processes/one process More importantly, please Cc: scheduler maintainers and lkml to both patches, so that the whole intent of the change can be reviewed, in full context. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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