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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>, Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bsegall@google.com, pjt@google.com,
	morten.rasmussen@arm.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/11] sched: Remove SD_WAKE_AFFINE flag and replace it with SD_BALANCE_WAKE
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:06:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1466690767.4075.10.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160623130433.GF8415@codeblueprint.co.uk>

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 14:04 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:

> I'm curious - doesn't this break userspace ABI? These flags are
> exported via procfs, so I would have assumed removing or changing the
> value of any of these constants would be forbidden.

Nope, if those change, you get to fix up your toys.  Hopping in the way
way back machine...

@ -460,10 +460,11 @@ enum idle_type
 #define SD_LOAD_BALANCE		1	/* Do load balancing on this domain. */
 #define SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE	2	/* Balance when about to become idle */
 #define SD_BALANCE_EXEC		4	/* Balance on exec */
-#define SD_WAKE_IDLE		8	/* Wake to idle CPU on task wakeup */
-#define SD_WAKE_AFFINE		16	/* Wake task to waking CPU */
-#define SD_WAKE_BALANCE		32	/* Perform balancing at task wakeup */
-#define SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER	64	/* Domain members share cpu power */
+#define SD_BALANCE_FORK		8	/* Balance on fork, clone */
+#define SD_WAKE_IDLE		16	/* Wake to idle CPU on task wakeup */
+#define SD_WAKE_AFFINE		32	/* Wake task to waking CPU */
+#define SD_WAKE_BALANCE		64	/* Perform balancing at task wakeup */
+#define SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER	128	/* Domain members share cpu power */

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-23 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16  1:49 [RFC PATCH 00/11] Refactor select_task_rq_fair() Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] sched: Remove unused @cpu argument from destroy_sched_domain*() Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] sched: Restructure destroy_sched_domain() Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] sched: Introduce struct sched_domain_shared Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] sched: Replace sd_busy/nr_busy_cpus with sched_domain_shared Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] sched: Rewrite select_idle_siblings() Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] sched: Optimize SCHED_SMT Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] sched: Clean up SD_BALANCE_WAKE flags in sched domain build-up Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] sched: Remove SD_WAKE_AFFINE flag and replace it with SD_BALANCE_WAKE Yuyang Du
2016-06-23 13:04   ` Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 13:54     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-23 14:06     ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] sched: Add per CPU variable sd_socket_id to specify the CPU's socket Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] sched: Add sched_llc_complete static key to specify whether the LLC covers all CPUs Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] sched/fair: Refactor select_task_rq_fair() Yuyang Du
2016-06-16  1:57   ` Yuyang Du

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