Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Care divide error in update_task_scan_period()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 08 2014 - 12:54:13 EST


On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:42:24PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 02:43 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
>
> > The divide error is rare case because the trigger is node offline.
> > By this patch, when both of private and shared are set to 0, diff
> > is just set to 0, not calculating the division.
>
> How about a simple
>
> if (private + shared) == 0)
> return;
>
> higher up in the function, to avoid adding an extra
> layer of indentation and confusion to the main part
> of the function?

At which point we'll have 3 different return semantics. Should we not
clear numa_faults_localityp[], even in this case?
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