On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 16:33 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 28/02/18 16:22, George Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > I kind of feel like there was a reason for the init / alloc
> > difference;
> > but as you say, at the moment all the schedulers are basically
> > identical.  In the unlikely event that we need separate callbacks,
> > we
> > can introduce them at such time as we have a need for them.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> 
> It looks like it was the cpupool work (c/s 78be3dbb, 2010) which
> split
> alloc/free domdata() out of init/destroy domain() and made the latter
> effectively redundant.
> 
Yes. As far as I can see/tell (I wasn't here), that commit introduced
alloc_domdata because there was the need to allocate the per-scheduler
domain data, without immediately assigning it to sched_priv.

I guess something like this that Andrew is doing could have been done
at that point. It just was not. :-)

Regards,
Dario
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