sched: Fix variable name misnomer, add comments
authorAndrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com>
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:12:24 +0000 (21:12 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:22:29 +0000 (08:22 +0100)
The min_vruntime variable actually stores the maximum value.
The added comment was taken from place_entity function.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363115544-1964-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/fair.c

index 22bd9e6..539760e 100644 (file)
@@ -431,13 +431,13 @@ void account_cfs_rq_runtime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, unsigned long delta_exec);
  * Scheduling class tree data structure manipulation methods:
  */
 
-static inline u64 max_vruntime(u64 min_vruntime, u64 vruntime)
+static inline u64 max_vruntime(u64 max_vruntime, u64 vruntime)
 {
-       s64 delta = (s64)(vruntime - min_vruntime);
+       s64 delta = (s64)(vruntime - max_vruntime);
        if (delta > 0)
-               min_vruntime = vruntime;
+               max_vruntime = vruntime;
 
-       return min_vruntime;
+       return max_vruntime;
 }
 
 static inline u64 min_vruntime(u64 min_vruntime, u64 vruntime)
@@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ static void update_min_vruntime(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq)
                        vruntime = min_vruntime(vruntime, se->vruntime);
        }
 
+       /* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */
        cfs_rq->min_vruntime = max_vruntime(cfs_rq->min_vruntime, vruntime);
 #ifndef CONFIG_64BIT
        smp_wmb();