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DateFri, 17 Mar 2006 23:52:06 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [2.6.16-rc6 patch] fix interactive task starvation
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 23:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > +static int expired_starving(runqueue_t *rq)
> > 
> > I'll make that inline..
> > 
> 
> Oops, I understood you to want that uninlined.
> 

It has just one callsite.  Modern gcc should inline it anyway, but older
versions tend to need help.

> > > +{
> > > +	int limit;
> > > +
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Arrays were recently switched, all is well.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (!rq->expired_timestamp)
> > > +		return 0;
> > > +
> > > +	limit = STARVATION_LIMIT * rq->nr_running;
> > 
> > In the previous iteration you had, effectively,
> > 
> > 	if (!limit)
> > 		return 0;
> > 
> > in here.   But it's now gone.   Deliberate?
> 
> Yes.  I see no way for it to be zero.  I think that was just a leftover.
> 

ok..
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