Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:22:00 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 1/7] sched: Create sched_select_cpu() to give preferred CPU for power saving | From | Viresh Kumar <> |
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On 19 March 2013 18:00, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 20:53 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: >> +/* >> + * This routine returns the nearest non-idle cpu. It accepts a >> bitwise OR of >> + * SD_* flags present in linux/sched.h. If the local CPU isn't idle, >> it is >> + * returned back. If it is idle, then we must look for another CPU >> which have >> + * all the flags passed as argument as set. >> + */ >> +int sched_select_cpu(unsigned int sd_flags) > > So the only problem I have is that you expose the SD_flags to !sched > code. The only proposed user is in the workqueue code and passes 0. > > Why not leave out the sd_flags argument and introduce it once you start > using it; at which point we can argue on the interface.
Yes, that can be done. Will fix it up.
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