Re: [PATCH -tip] sched: Clean unused fields from struct rq

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Wed Mar 18 2009 - 18:10:47 EST


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:52:24PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Hi,
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:00:06PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> > I actually key off the SCHEDSTAT_VERSION (currently 14) at the top of
> > kernel/sched_stats.h. Cursory inspection of the existing code and your
> > patch says that this should actually be the value that needs updating
> > (vs. vSched-Debug). However, note that I am not sure if there are also
> > users of sched-debug that need to see that version bump as well in order
> > to remain compatible.
>
> Just realised something while taking a look at you're schedtop: you are
> referring to sched_stats, which shows data in /proc/schedstat, while my patch
> actually targets sched_debug, which shows data in /proc/sched_debug. And I
> guess this is why we have 2 different versioning mechanisms: they refer to
> different things :-)
>
> So, if this is correct, my last patch actually updates the correct version,
> right?

Gah! Wrong again!

My patch touches both sched_debug and sched_stats, so I believe I need to change
both versions.

--
Luis Henriques
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