Re: [PATCH 1/2] nohz: clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()

From: Alex Shi
Date: Mon Sep 10 2012 - 21:28:09 EST


On 09/10/2012 11:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 15:10 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>> There is no load_balancer to be selected now. It just set state of
>> nohz tick stopping.
>>
>> So rename the function, pass the 'cpu' from parameter and then
>> remove the useless calling from tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick().
>
> Please check who wrote the code you're patching and attempt to CC them
> as well, in this case Venki and Suresh.


Thanks! will care about this from now on.

>
> I think the patch is fine, although I think we could have picked a
> better name, how about nohz_balance_enter_idle() ?


nohz_balance_enter_idle is good a name too. but I name it as
set_nohz_tick_stopped, since there is a clear_nohz_tick_stopped(), that
just do the opposed action of this function. According to this, is it
better to another function to nohz_balance_leave_idle()?
Or keep their current name?

Thanks
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