Re: [PATCH][2/4] sched: add discrete weighted cpu load function

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 09:45, Peter Williams wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > I haven't checked but gcc may well inline weighted_cpuload anyway?
>
> It may be doing so for internal uses inside sched.c but I'm pretty sure
> that it won't for external calls.

Hmm I investigated briefly and only C99 inlining (whatever that means) will 
allow me to locally inline and export as well. It would do so if I specified 
-finline-functions which is not our default at all in the kernel (we only 
recently disable -fnoinline-functions I believe). Anyway checking positively 
shows me this on gcc 4.1.0:

0xc0111283 <find_busiest_queue+83>:     call   0xc0110dc0 <weighted_cpuload>

So no, it doesn't get inlined.

> > The way you're suggesting adds a function that is never used by anything
> > but swap prefetch which would then need to be 'ifdef'ed out to not be
> > needlessly built on every system. Adding ifdefs is frowned upon already,
> > and to have an mm/ specific ifdef in sched.c would be rather ugly.
>
> Sometimes ugliness is the best option.

I spent quite some time trying to find the least cost way to do this without 
uglifying code. I don't feel strongly about just how to do it though. 
Comments from Andrew and Ingo would be most welcome on this matter.

Cheers,
Con