Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] sched/fair: Change @running of __update_load_avg() to @update_util

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jun 01 2016 - 16:12:00 EST


On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 08:39:22PM +0100, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> The information whether a se/cfs_rq should get its load and
> utilization (se representing a task and root cfs_rq) or only its load
> (se representing a task group and cfs_rq owned by this se) updated can
> be passed into __update_load_avg() to avoid the additional if/else
> condition to set update_util.
>
> @running is changed to @update_util which now carries the information if
> the utilization of the se/cfs_rq should be updated and if the se/cfs_rq
> is running or not.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 3ae8e79fb687..a1c13975cf56 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2669,6 +2669,10 @@ static u32 __compute_runnable_contrib(u64 n)
>
> #define cap_scale(v, s) ((v)*(s) >> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT)
>
> +#define upd_util_se(se, rng) ((entity_is_task(se) << 1) | (rng))

Just saying that on first reading that went: Random Number Generator, uh
what?!

So maybe pick better names?