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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-29 08:05:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-29 08:05:33 -0700
commit37542b6a7e73e81f8c066a48e6911e476ee3b22f (patch)
tree39da99d28803b18c223eebe45c3170992ee08b7e /kernel/sched_stats.h
parentc07724e5b868c603f2a65f3855c77b23454db3ed (diff)
parentd4a6f3c32c39132318454e77d59ab14b06f6eb02 (diff)
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_stats.h b/kernel/sched_stats.h
index 25c2f962f6fc..48ddf431db0e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_stats.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_stats.h
@@ -157,15 +157,7 @@ static inline void sched_info_reset_dequeued(struct task_struct *t)
}
/*
- * Called when a process is dequeued from the active array and given
- * the cpu. We should note that with the exception of interactive
- * tasks, the expired queue will become the active queue after the active
- * queue is empty, without explicitly dequeuing and requeuing tasks in the
- * expired queue. (Interactive tasks may be requeued directly to the
- * active queue, thus delaying tasks in the expired queue from running;
- * see scheduler_tick()).
- *
- * Though we are interested in knowing how long it was from the *first* time a
+ * We are interested in knowing how long it was from the *first* time a
* task was queued to the time that it finally hit a cpu, we call this routine
* from dequeue_task() to account for possible rq->clock skew across cpus. The
* delta taken on each cpu would annul the skew.
@@ -203,16 +195,6 @@ static void sched_info_arrive(struct task_struct *t)
}
/*
- * Called when a process is queued into either the active or expired
- * array. The time is noted and later used to determine how long we
- * had to wait for us to reach the cpu. Since the expired queue will
- * become the active queue after active queue is empty, without dequeuing
- * and requeuing any tasks, we are interested in queuing to either. It
- * is unusual but not impossible for tasks to be dequeued and immediately
- * requeued in the same or another array: this can happen in sched_yield(),
- * set_user_nice(), and even load_balance() as it moves tasks from runqueue
- * to runqueue.
- *
* This function is only called from enqueue_task(), but also only updates
* the timestamp if it is already not set. It's assumed that
* sched_info_dequeued() will clear that stamp when appropriate.