Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] sched: Create sched_select_cpu() to give preferredCPU for power saving

[Viresh Kumar]

On 19 March 2013 18:00, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 20:53 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * This routine returns the nearest non-idle cpu. It accepts a
>> bitwise OR of
>> + * SD_* flags present in linux/sched.h. If the local CPU isn't idle,
>> it is
>> + * returned back. If it is idle, then we must look for another CPU
>> which have
>> + * all the flags passed as argument as set.
>> + */
>> +int sched_select_cpu(unsigned int sd_flags)
>
> So the only problem I have is that you expose the SD_flags to !sched
> code. The only proposed user is in the workqueue code and passes 0.
>
> Why not leave out the sd_flags argument and introduce it once you start
> using it; at which point we can argue on the interface.

Yes, that can be done. Will fix it up.
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