Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752474Ab2JIQ6Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 12:58:24 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:46798 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751932Ab2JIQ6W (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 12:58:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121009155613.GA3729@e103034-lin> References: <1348252345-5642-1-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com> <1348252345-5642-3-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com> <20121009155613.GA3729@e103034-lin> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 22:28:21 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/10] sched: Task placement for heterogeneous systems based on task load-tracking From: Viresh Kumar To: Morten Rasmussen Cc: "paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "pjt@google.com" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "suresh.b.siddha@intel.com" , "linaro-sched-sig@lists.linaro.org" , "linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Amit Kucheria , Robin Randhawa , Arvind Chauhan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3624 Lines: 117 On 9 October 2012 21:26, Morten Rasmussen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:02:03AM +0100, Viresh Kumar wrote: >> On 22 September 2012 00:02, wrote: >> > SCHED_HMP requires that the platform implements arch_get_hmp_domains() >> > which should set up the platform specific list of hmp_domains. It is >> > also assumed that the platform disables SD_LOAD_BALANCE for the >> > appropriate sched_domains. >> >> An explanation of this requirement would be helpful here. > > Yes. This is to prevent the load-balancer from moving tasks between > hmp_domains. This will be done exclusively by SCHED_HMP instead to > implement a strict task migration policy and avoid changing the > load-balancer behaviour. The load-balancer will take care of > load-balacing within each hmp_domain. Honestly speaking i understood this point now and earlier it wasn't clear to me :) What would be ideal is to put this information in the comment just before we re-define other SCHED_*** domains where we disable balancing. And keep it in the commit log too. >> > +struct hmp_domain { >> > + struct cpumask cpus; >> > + struct list_head hmp_domains; >> >> Probably need a better name here. domain_list? > > Yes. hmp_domain_list would be better and stick with the hmp_* naming > convention. IMHO hmp_ would be better for global names, but names of variables enclosed within another hmp_*** data type don't actually need hmp_**, as this is implicity. i.e. struct hmp_domain { struct cpumask cpus; struct list_head domain_list; } would be better than struct list_head hmp domain_list; as the parent structure already have hmp_***. So whatever is inside the struct is obviously hmp specific. >> > +/* Setup hmp_domains */ >> > +static int __init hmp_cpu_mask_setup(void) >> >> How should we interpret its return value? Can you mention what does 0 & 1 mean >> here? >> > > Returns 0 if domain setup failed, i.e. the domain list is empty, and 1 > otherwise. Helpful. Please mention this in function comment in your next revision. >> > +{ >> > + char buf[64]; >> > + struct hmp_domain *domain; >> > + struct list_head *pos; >> > + int dc, cpu; >> > + /* Print hmp_domains */ >> > + dc = 0; >> >> Should be done during definition of dc. You missed this ?? >> > + for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, domain->cpus) { >> > + per_cpu(hmp_cpu_domain, cpu) = domain; >> > + } >> >> Should use hmp_cpu_domain(cpu) here. Also no need of {} for single >> line loop. ?? >> > + dc++; >> >> You aren't using it... Only for testing? Should we remove it from mainline >> patchset and keep it locally? >> > > I'm using it in the pr_debug line a little earlier. It is used for > enumerating the hmp_domains. My mistake :( >> > +/* Check if cpu is in fastest hmp_domain */ >> > +static inline unsigned int hmp_cpu_is_fastest(int cpu) >> > +{ >> > + struct list_head *pos; >> > + >> > + pos = &hmp_cpu_domain(cpu)->hmp_domains; >> > + return pos == hmp_domains.next; >> >> better create list_is_first() for this. > > I had the same thought, but I see that as a separate patch that should > be submitted separately. Correct. So better send it now, so that it is included before you send your next version. :) -- viresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/