From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f176.google.com (mail-pd0-f176.google.com [209.85.192.176]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95CC6B0032 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:07:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pd0-f176.google.com with SMTP id q10so7525343pdj.35 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5253064B.3010405@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:06:51 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 38/63] sched: Introduce migrate_swap() References: <1381141781-10992-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1381141781-10992-39-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1381141781-10992-39-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , LKML On 10/07/2013 06:29 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra > > Use the new stop_two_cpus() to implement migrate_swap(), a function that > flips two tasks between their respective cpus. > > I'm fairly sure there's a less crude way than employing the stop_two_cpus() > method, but everything I tried either got horribly fragile and/or complex. So > keep it simple for now. > > The notable detail is how we 'migrate' tasks that aren't runnable > anymore. We'll make it appear like we migrated them before they went to > sleep. The sole difference is the previous cpu in the wakeup path, so we > override this. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org