Re: [PATCH] sched: fix constructing the span cpu mask of sched domain

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri May 06 2011 - 03:12:59 EST



* Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For a given node, when constructing the cpumask for its sched_domain
> to span, if there is no best node available after searching, further
> efforts could be saved, based on small change in the return value of
> find_next_best_node().
>
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> --- a/kernel/sched.c 2011-04-27 11:48:50.000000000 +0800
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c 2011-05-05 20:44:52.000000000 +0800
> @@ -6787,7 +6787,7 @@ init_sched_build_groups(const struct cpu
> */
> static int find_next_best_node(int node, nodemask_t *used_nodes)
> {
> - int i, n, val, min_val, best_node = 0;
> + int i, n, val, min_val, best_node = -1;
>
> min_val = INT_MAX;
>
> @@ -6811,7 +6811,8 @@ static int find_next_best_node(int node,
> }
> }
>
> - node_set(best_node, *used_nodes);
> + if (best_node != -1)
> + node_set(best_node, *used_nodes);
> return best_node;
> }
>
> @@ -6837,7 +6838,8 @@ static void sched_domain_node_span(int n
>
> for (i = 1; i < SD_NODES_PER_DOMAIN; i++) {
> int next_node = find_next_best_node(node, &used_nodes);
> -
> + if (next_node < 0)
> + break;
> cpumask_or(span, span, cpumask_of_node(next_node));
> }
> }

Looks good. I changed the title from:

sched: fix constructing the span cpu mask of sched domain

to:

sched: Shorten the constructing of the span cpu mask of sched domain

Because unless i missed some side effect it really does not 'fix' anything, it
avoids repetitive (and ultimately fruitless) extra work, right?

Thanks,

Ingo
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