Re: [patch] f83f9ac causes tasks running at MAX_PRIO

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 11:25 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> On 02/12/09 22:49, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Hysterical reasons?  That might have been a doorstop conversion kit for
> > O(1), but boots fine with CFS, and prio 40 tasks are history.
> 
> In my (not so) humble opinion, there is still a lot of unnecessary cruft 
> in sched.c that should have been removed as the final (clean up) stage 
> of implementing CFS (i.e. stuff that was needed for O(1) but no longer 
> serves a useful purpose).  I know that the extra overhead of this code 
> is probably inconsequential (and the compiler may even optimize some of 
> it away) but it looks untidy and makes the code harder to understand.
> 
> Recent patches that I've submitted were intended as a start to removing 
> some of this cruft and I had intended to send more patches after they 
> were accepted.  I figured that it was better to do it as a number of 
> small changes rather than one big one.  Should I continue?

Certainly.

	-Mike