From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjt@google.com,
bsegall@google.com, arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com,
len.brown@intel.com, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com,
alan.cox@intel.com, mark.gross@intel.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v4] sched: Rewrite per entity runnable load average tracking
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:19:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140729131957.GE3935@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140729010945.GB5203@intel.com>
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:09:45AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> > > +#define subtract_until_zero(minuend, subtrahend) \
> > > + (subtrahend < minuend ? minuend - subtrahend : 0)
> >
> > WTH is a minuend or subtrahend? Are you a wordsmith in your spare time
> > and like to make up your own words?
> >
> > Also, isn't writing: x = max(0, x-y), far more readable to begin with?
> >
>
> Ok. IIUC, max() does not handle minus number super good, and we don't need the type
> overhead in max(), so still use my macro, but won't be wordsmith again, :)
The 'type' muck is compile time, it doesn't generate any code.
And max() deals just fine with negative numbers assuming you use signed
types, which you could force with max_t().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-17 23:26 [PATCH 0/2 v4] sched: Rewrite per entity runnable load average tracking Yuyang Du
2014-07-17 23:26 ` [PATCH 1/2 v4] sched: Remove update_rq_runnable_avg Yuyang Du
2014-07-17 23:26 ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] sched: Rewrite per entity runnable load average tracking Yuyang Du
2014-07-18 9:43 ` Vincent Guittot
2014-07-27 17:36 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-29 9:12 ` Vincent Guittot
2014-07-29 1:43 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-29 13:17 ` Vincent Guittot
2014-07-29 22:27 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-30 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-30 0:40 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-29 9:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-29 1:53 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-29 13:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-29 15:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-29 23:08 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-31 9:40 ` Vincent Guittot
2014-07-31 9:56 ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] sched: Rewrite per entity runnable load average Vincent Guittot
2014-07-31 19:16 ` Yuyang Du
2014-08-01 9:28 ` Vincent Guittot
2014-07-28 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] sched: Rewrite per entity runnable load average tracking Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-29 0:56 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-29 13:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-28 11:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-29 1:09 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-29 13:19 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-07-28 12:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-28 13:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-28 16:58 ` bsegall
2014-07-28 17:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-29 1:13 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-18 15:39 ` [PATCH 0/2 " Morten Rasmussen
2014-07-27 19:02 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-28 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-29 1:17 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-29 13:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-30 10:13 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-07-30 10:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-30 10:57 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-07-30 19:17 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-31 8:54 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-07-31 2:15 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-20 5:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-07-27 19:34 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-28 7:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-07-28 0:01 ` Yuyang Du
2014-07-28 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
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