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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [2.6.16-rc6 patch] fix interactive task starvation
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:52:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060317235206.122e687a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142668119.7787.7.camel@homer>

Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 23:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > +static int expired_starving(runqueue_t *rq)
> > 
> > I'll make that inline..
> > 
> 
> Oops, I understood you to want that uninlined.
> 

It has just one callsite.  Modern gcc should inline it anyway, but older
versions tend to need help.

> > > +{
> > > +	int limit;
> > > +
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Arrays were recently switched, all is well.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (!rq->expired_timestamp)
> > > +		return 0;
> > > +
> > > +	limit = STARVATION_LIMIT * rq->nr_running;
> > 
> > In the previous iteration you had, effectively,
> > 
> > 	if (!limit)
> > 		return 0;
> > 
> > in here.   But it's now gone.   Deliberate?
> 
> Yes.  I see no way for it to be zero.  I think that was just a leftover.
> 

ok..

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-18  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-18  5:08 [2.6.16-rc6 patch] fix interactive task starvation Mike Galbraith
2006-03-18  5:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18  5:50   ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-18  6:22     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18  7:29       ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-18  7:33         ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18  7:48           ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-18  7:52             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-18  8:51         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-18  8:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18  8:15   ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-18  9:43     ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-18  8:52   ` Ingo Molnar

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