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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tkhai@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Care divide error in update_task_scan_period()
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 18:54:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141008165402.GO10832@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54356970.7050805@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:42:24PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 02:43 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> 
> >   The divide error is rare case because the trigger is node offline.
> >   By this patch, when both of private and shared are set to 0, diff
> >   is just set to 0, not calculating the division.
> 
> How about a simple
> 
>     if (private + shared) == 0)
>           return;
> 
> higher up in the function, to avoid adding an extra
> layer of indentation and confusion to the main part
> of the function?

At which point we'll have 3 different return semantics. Should we not
clear numa_faults_localityp[], even in this case?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-08 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-08  6:43 [PATCH] sched/fair: Care divide error in update_task_scan_period() Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-10-08  8:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-08 11:51 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-10-09  5:34   ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-10-08 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-08 16:54   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-10-09  5:19     ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu

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