From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753406AbaLGU0M (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2014 15:26:12 -0500 Received: from mail-qa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.216.54]:44238 "EHLO mail-qa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751519AbaLGU0L (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2014 15:26:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <026301d00ed0$eb723020$c2569060$@alibaba-inc.com> References: <026301d00ed0$eb723020$c2569060$@alibaba-inc.com> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 07:26:09 +1100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9q4sh-SToWM2Doz478aNCGaUcfU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] BFS CPU scheduler v0.450 with SMT nice support for linux-3.16 From: Con Kolivas To: Hillf Danton Cc: linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3 December 2014 at 19:12, Hillf Danton wrote: > Hey Con Hi Hilf >> This is to announce a resync and update of the Brain Fuck Scheduler, >> version 0.450 for the latest stable linux kernel. >> > [...] >> The patch against linux-3.16(.x) is available here: >> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/3.0/3.16/3.16-sched-bfs-450.patch >> > $ grep -nr above_background_load bfs/src > bfs/src/3.16-sched-bfs-450.patch:689:+bool above_background_load(void); > bfs/src/3.16-sched-bfs-450.patch:736:+static inline bool above_background_load(void) > bfs/src/3.16-sched-bfs-450.patch:1665:+bool above_background_load(void) > > Would you please pin-point what is that routine used for? This function used to be used with the VM tweaks that the -ck patchset used to come with. I have since deprecated those VM tweaks but the function remains in the scheduler. You're right to point it out and I'll remove it when I resync with 3.18 (it's still in the BFS 458 patch for 3.17). Thanks, Con > Thanks > Hillf >