From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched/mmcid: Use clamp() to simplify mm_cid_calc_pcpu_thrs()
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 23:07:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akrHgtvs0UYOnZUL@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705200723.66564929@pumpkin>
On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 08:07:23PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 19:20:54 +0200
> Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> > Use clamp() to simplify the code and improve its readability.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
> > ---
> > kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > index 8b791e9e9f67..31739bd43176 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> > @@ -10785,7 +10785,7 @@ static inline unsigned int mm_cid_calc_pcpu_thrs(struct mm_mm_cid *mc)
> >
> > opt_cids = min(mc->nr_cpus_allowed, mc->users);
> > /* Has to be at least 1 because 0 indicates PCPU mode off */
> > - return max(min(opt_cids - opt_cids / 4, num_possible_cpus() / 2), 1);
> > + return clamp(opt_cids - opt_cids / 4, 1, num_possible_cpus() / 2);
>
> Nack, it isn't the same.
> clamp() requires that lo <= hi but I suspect num_possible_cpus()
> can be zero.
num_possible_cpus() probably shouldn't be 0, but you're right anyway,
and that's the case I didn't consider: num_possible_cpus() / 2 == 0 when
num_possible_cpus() is 1.
Let's drop this patch, and thanks for the feedback.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-05 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-05 17:20 [PATCH RESEND] sched/mmcid: Use clamp() to simplify mm_cid_calc_pcpu_thrs() Thorsten Blum
2026-07-05 19:07 ` David Laight
2026-07-05 21:07 ` Thorsten Blum [this message]
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