On 26/08/2019 10:26, Vincent Guittot wrote:
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>>> busiest group.
>>> - calculate_imbalance() decides what have to be moved.
>>
>> That's nothing new, isn't it? I think what you mean there is that the
>
> There is 2 things:
> -part of the algorithm is new and fixes wrong task placement
> -everything has been consolidated in the 3 functions above whereas
> there were some bypasses and hack in the current code
>
Right, something like that could be added in the changelog then.
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>>> @@ -7745,10 +7793,10 @@ struct sg_lb_stats {
>>> struct sd_lb_stats {
>>> struct sched_group *busiest; /* Busiest group in this sd */
>>> struct sched_group *local; /* Local group in this sd */
>>> - unsigned long total_running;
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>> Could be worth calling out in the log that this gets snipped out. Or it
>> could go into its own small cleanup patch, since it's just an unused field.
>
> I can mention it more specifically in the log but that's part of those
> meaningless metrics which is no more used
I'm a git blame addict so I like having things split up as much as possible
(within reason). Since that cleanup can live in its own patch, it should
be split as such IMO.
