Re: [PATCH -v1 00/13] sched/balancing: Standardize the naming of scheduler load-balancing functions

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

> Over the years we've grown a colorful zoo of scheduler
> load-balancing function names - both following random,
> idiosyncratic patterns, and gaining historic misnomers
> that are not accurate anymore.
> 
> We have 'newidle_balance()' to rebalance newly idle tasks,
> but 'balance_domains()' to rebalance domains. We have
> a find_idlest_cpu() function whose purpose is not to find
> the idlest CPU anymore, and a find_busiest_queue() function
> whose purpose is not to find the busiest runqueue anymore.
> 
> Fix most of the misnomers and organize the functions along the
> sched_balance_*() namespace:
> 
>   scheduler_tick()		=> sched_tick()
>   run_rebalance_domains()	=> sched_balance_softirq()
>   trigger_load_balance()	=> sched_balance_trigger()
>   rebalance_domains()		=> sched_balance_domains()
>   load_balance()		=> sched_balance_rq()
>   newidle_balance()		=> sched_balance_newidle()
>   find_busiest_queue()	=> sched_balance_find_src_rq()
>   find_busiest_group()	=> sched_balance_find_src_group()
>   find_idlest_group_cpu()	=> sched_balance_find_dst_group_cpu()
>   find_idlest_group()		=> sched_balance_find_dst_group()
>   find_idlest_cpu()		=> sched_balance_find_dst_cpu()
>   update_blocked_averages()	=> sched_balance_update_blocked_averages()

Forgot to mention that this series is on top of the scheduler tree 
(tip:sched/core) plus my other pending queue:

   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308105901.1096078-1-mingo@kernel.org

Thanks,

	Ingo