Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] sched/fair: rework load_balance

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Nov 18 2019 - 09:51:39 EST


On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 02:50:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > s/groupe_type/group_type/
> >
> > > enum group_type {
> > > - group_other = 0,
> > > + group_has_spare = 0,
> > > + group_fully_busy,
> > > group_misfit_task,
> > > + group_asym_packing,
> > > group_imbalanced,
> > > - group_overloaded,
> > > + group_overloaded
> > > +};
> > > +
> >
> > While not your fault, it would be nice to comment on the meaning of each
> > group type. From a glance, it's not obvious to me why a misfit task should
> > be a high priority to move a task than a fully_busy (but not overloaded)
> > group given that moving the misfit task might make a group overloaded.
>
> This part of your feedback should now be addressed in the scheduler tree
> via:
>
> a9723389cc75: sched/fair: Add comments for group_type and balancing at SD_NUMA level
>

While I can't see that commit ID yet, the discussed version of the patch
was fine by me.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs