From: Wang Jinchao <wangjinchao@xfusion.com>
To: 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>,
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stone.xulei@xfusion.com>
Subject: [RFC resend] sched: Can we rename 'core scheduling' to 'smt scheduling'?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:36:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zbd/qYQCQCELe+TF@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202312191503+0800-wangjinchao@xfusion.com>
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 03:07:43PM +0800, Wang Jinchao wrote:
> The term 'core' in 'kernel/sched/' implies a relation to the kernel of sched,
> and at the same time, 'core' is used in 'core scheduling' to represent a CPU core.
> Both meanings coexist in the 'core.c' file and appear numerous times.
>
> This can be confusing for newcomers.
>
> --
> Wang Jinchao
Maybe we should rename sched/core_sched.c to sched/smt_sched.c,
and move relevant code from sched/core.c to smt_sched.c.
I believe using "smt" in smt_sched.c would be clearer than "core" in core_sched.c,
especially considering its association with core.c.
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2023-12-19 7:07 [RFC] sched: Can we rename 'core scheduling' to 'smt scheduling'? Wang Jinchao
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