2006-06-15 10:29 +0100Robert Watson
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Xin LI wrote:
> [...]> A question that might be related: We have sched_sizeof_proc(), etc. in
> > every scheduler, which returns a constant. Is it worthy to convert them to
> > constants that just expand inline during the kernel compile?
>
> It should make no difference -- sched_sizeof_proc() is evaluated exactly once,
> when the process zone is created. After that, the size is cached in the
> process zone and never re-evaluated. The current model allows the size to be
> calculated based on data structures private to sched_foo.c, which has some
> nice implementation hiding advantages :-).
Oh... Yes that's quite reasonable. Thanks for the explanation!
Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij delphij net> http://www.delphij.net/
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