Re: [RFC][PATCH 09/14] sched: Dynamically allocate sched_domain/sched_group data-structures

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 18:23 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> >        if (affine_sd) {
> > -               if (cpu == prev_cpu || wake_affine(affine_sd, p, sync))
> > -                       return select_idle_sibling(p, cpu);
> > -               else
> > -                       return select_idle_sibling(p, prev_cpu);
> > +               if (wake_affine(affine_sd, p, sync))
> > +                       prev_cpu = cpu;
> > +
> > +               new_cpu = select_idle_sibling(p, prev_cpu);
> > +               goto unlock;
> >        }
> >
> >        while (sd) {
> 
> This would result in going through wake_affine() doing all
> effective_load stuff even with cpu == prev_cpu. No?
> So, we need either if (cpu != prev_cpu && wake_affine(affine_sd, p,
> sync)) or an check at the start to have want_affine=0 for this case.

D'0h yeah, I missed the conditional execution of wake_affine there, silly me.