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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: find_busiest_group() cleanup

* Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This patchset contains the cleanup of the humongous
> find_busiest_group() function.
>
> Vaidy had tried a hand at this before. His approach can be
> found here:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/24/201 and
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/9/176
>
> Though the code in this patchset has been written from scratch I
> have reused some of the ideas that Vaidy had originally proposed.
> Credit has been given whereever it is due :)
>
> The patches in this series are incremental. Each one is a
> functional patch, which compiles fine.
>
> The steps followed in the cleanup are as follows:
> - Fix indentations.
>
> - Group variables that serve a common high-level purpose into a single
> structure.
>
> - Use helper functions to perform all the calculatations, like calculating
> the sched_domain and sched_group statistics, calculating the imbalance, etc.
>
> - Move the power_savings_balance part, which depends on
> (CONFIG_SCHED_MC || CONFIG_SCHED_SMT) into a different section, thereby
> eliminating the #ifdef jungle in helper functions.
>
> - Add /** style comments for all the functions, including find_busiest_group()
>
> - Add additional comments whereever appropriate.
>
> After applying all the patches, the size of find_busiest_group()
> goes down from 313 lines to 76 lines. Of course, there are the
> helpers, but effort has been put to keep all the helper functions
> within the 80 line limit.

Very nice series!

> Any feedback on the patches and how the functionality can be
> tested is greatly appreciated.

I'll try my best to get this tested.

Ingo


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