On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 23:07 -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:11:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > What about hooking into the idle_balance code? That happens if we are > > about to go to idle but before the full schedule switch to the idle > > task. > > > > > > In __schedule(void): > > > > if (unlikely(!rq->nr_running)) > > idle_balance(cpu, rq); > > That may be a great place to try it from the PoV of the scheduler, but are > you OK with me threading a struct backing_dev_info * all the way through > the scheduler to idle_balance()? :-) Well, there's other ways to pass data down besides parameters. You could attach something to the task itself. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
