Re: [RFC PATCH 14/14] sched: implement usage tracking

From: Paul Turner
Date: Fri Feb 17 2012 - 05:55:23 EST


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 17:38 -0800, Paul Turner wrote:
>>  static inline void update_rq_runnable_avg(struct rq *rq, int runnable)
>>  {
>> -       __update_entity_runnable_avg(rq->clock_task, &rq->avg, runnable);
>> +       __update_entity_runnable_avg(rq->clock_task, &rq->avg, runnable,
>> +                                    runnable);
>
> Its not immediately obvious why we use @runnable for @running,

Isn't it? An rq is the root of all scheduling -- if there are any
runnable tasks than one of them better be running when this is called.

I can add a comment to this effect.
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