Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] sched: factor out code to should_we_balance()

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:36:42PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

Another one of these patches I should stare in more detail at..

>  static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
>  			struct sched_domain *sd, enum cpu_idle_type idle,
> -			int *balance)
> +			int *should_balance)
>  {
>  	int ld_moved, cur_ld_moved, active_balance = 0;
>  	struct sched_group *group;
> @@ -5073,12 +5070,14 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq,
>  
>  	schedstat_inc(sd, lb_count[idle]);
>  
> -redo:
> -	group = find_busiest_group(&env, balance);
> -
> -	if (*balance == 0)
> +	if (!should_we_balance(&env)) {
> +		*should_balance = 0;
>  		goto out_balanced;
> +	} else
> +		*should_balance = 1;

--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5120,11 +5120,8 @@ static int load_balance(int this_cpu, st
 
 	schedstat_inc(sd, lb_count[idle]);
 
-	if (!should_we_balance(&env)) {
-		*should_balance = 0;
+	if (!(*should_balance = should_we_balance(&env)))
 		goto out_balanced;
-	} else
-		*should_balance = 1;
 
 redo:
 	group = find_busiest_group(&env);