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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Dagaen Golomb <dgolomb@cis.upenn.edu>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Haoran Li <lihaoran@wustl.edu>,
	Linh Thi Xuan Phan <linhphan@cis.upenn.edu>,
	Meng Xu <xumengpanda@gmail.com>, Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Tianyang Chen <tiche@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen:rtds: Update last_start whenever cur_budget is updated
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:03:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161027100344.GW30231@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477559676.16647.19.camel@citrix.com>

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:14:36AM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 15:06 -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
> > We keep last_start updated whenever cur_budget is updated.
> > This avoids subtle bugs in case burn_budget() will be called
> > in other places in the future.
> > 
> I'd change this into something like:
> 
> "Make budget accounting code more consistent by making sure the values
> used to compute how much budget has been consumed are updated together.
> 
> This makes code resilient to calling burn_budget() from more than just
> one place --in case we will need to do that-- without risking subtle
> bugs."
> 
> Also, when that is the case, like here, you need to explicitly state
> that no functional changes are intended.
> 
> With all this done to the changelog:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>
> >
> Acked-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
> 
> This can go in 4.8, but can also well wait for 4.9.
> 

Meng, let me know if you're OK with Dario's suggestion.

Wei.

> Regards,
> Dario
> -- 
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)



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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-26 19:06 [PATCH] xen:rtds: Update last_start whenever cur_budget is updated Meng Xu
2016-10-27  9:14 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-10-27 10:03   ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-10-27 13:40     ` Meng Xu
2016-10-27 13:42     ` Meng Xu
2016-10-27 13:43       ` Wei Liu

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