Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:39:35 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] sched/rt: Distribute tasks in find_lowest_rq() |
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:58:49 +0100 > Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> wrote: > > > To move this forward, I would suggest renaming the current cpumask_any_*() > > into cpumask_first_*(), and THEN introduce the new pseudo-random > > ones. People are then free to hand-fix specific locations if it makes sense > > there, like you're doing for RT. > > Or leave "cpumask_any()" as is, and create a new "cpumask_random()" for > this purpose.
Well, that's just twisting words, not sure I like that. 'Any' really means 'any'. So in order to preserve long term sanity, I'd vote for Valentin's approach of converting existing users over to first.
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