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Darren Hart wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 08:16 -0400, Cícero wrote:
>
>>hi
>>
>>I am looking for the result of the function move_task in
>>
>>kernel/sched.c , I have observed that it returns an int value and as I
>>print it with printk.
>>
>>I have created a int variable 'results_move_task' which capture the result of
>>
>>move_task and I print it with printk("%d",results_move_task); I
>>observed that it often returns the value '1' and sometimes it returns
>>'2' or more. Is it really correct?
>
>
> /*
> * move_tasks tries to move up to max_nr_move tasks from busiest to this_rq,
> * as part of a balancing operation within "domain". Returns the number of
> * tasks moved.
> *
> * Called with both runqueues locked.
> */
> static int move_tasks(runqueue_t *this_rq, int this_cpu, runqueue_t *busiest,
> unsigned long max_nr_move, struct sched_domain *sd,
> enum idle_type idle)
> {
> ...
>
>
> So as the "documentation" states, it returns the number of tasks
> actually moved. For instance, The balancing code may request 4 tasks be
> moved, but for various reasons, only 2 were actually moved to other
> CPUs, move_tasks() would return 2.
and there are a few cases/places where the move target count
is limited to only 1.
--
~Randy
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