Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: clean up asym packing

[Valentin Schneider]

On 03/06/2019 19:32, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 20:15, Valentin Schneider
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> My original goal was to add a group type to classify the group but
> this would have broken the current behavior whereas I only want to
> move code
> 
>>
>> Also, why tag this group in update_sd_pick_busiest()? It would make more
>> sense to do so in update_sg_lb_stats() like with the other sg_lb_stats fields:
> 
> With your proposal below, the test is called for every groups'
> statistic update whereas it is only done lastly after checking other
> rules in the current code and I don't want to modify the current
> behavior but only move code to set imbalance in calculate imbalance.
> 

Adding a new group_type would make sense. From a behavioral point of view
your change is fine, but from a logical one it sits halfway between being
a new stat and being a new group_type. I'd rather see a new group_type,
though as you said that's a different topic than cleaning up duplicate
operations.

> A bigger cleanup will come in next steps
> 
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