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authorRakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>2010-10-24 16:28:47 +0600
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-24 13:29:01 +0200
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sched_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments
Remove some sched_info_queue(), sched_info_dequeue() code comment. We no longer belongs to the era of O(1) and we don't use active or expired array anymore. Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTi=REu0WzOp5N=nVT1=ZJ=ZA+MZFV+4CHSJ3Q-Yv@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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.