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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/core: Clear the root_domain cpumasks in init_rootdomain()
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:35:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151203093525.GQ17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565FAC78.3030205@redhat.com>

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 10:44:08AM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:

> > Nice, will you be looking for similar issues elsewhere in the scheduler
> > too?
> 
> Sure :-)

Thanks!

> >>> in alloc_rootdomain() ?
> >> There is a "memset(rd, 0, sizeof(*rd))" in init_rootdomain(),
> >> so I don't think we need to do this in alloc_rootdomain().
> > Ah, right there is. Which also clears the mask for small systems.
> 
> Yeah, maybe we can improve it using alloc_cpumask_var() with
> __GFP_ZERO instead of zalloc_cpumask_var() to avoid duplicate
> clean for small systems.

This isn't a performance critical path, so clarity and correctness are
more important than performance.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-03  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-02 11:52 [PATCH] sched/core: Clear the root_domain cpumasks in init_rootdomain() Xunlei Pang
2015-12-02 12:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-02 13:12   ` Xunlei Pang
2015-12-02 16:25     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03  2:44       ` Xunlei Pang
2015-12-03  8:28         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-12-03 11:52           ` Xunlei Pang
2015-12-04  8:09             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-12-04  8:27               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-04  8:30                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-12-04  8:28               ` Xunlei Pang
2015-12-04  8:30                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-12-03  9:35         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-12-04 11:52 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Xunlei Pang

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