Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: Implement task_nice and task_prio as staticinline functions.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 27 2014 - 05:33:15 EST


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 05:15:39PM -0500, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> +/**
> + * task_prio - return the priority value of a given task.
> + * @p: the task in question.
> + *
> + * Return: The priority value as seen by users in /proc.
> + * RT tasks are offset by -200. Normal tasks are centered
> + * around 0, value goes from -16 to +15.
> + */
> +static inline int task_prio(const struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> + return p->prio - MAX_RT_PRIO;
> +}

Who would ever want to use/rely on this? It doesn't make any sense. And
therefore it shouldn't ever be considered time critical.

> +/**
> + * task_nice - return the nice value of a given task.
> + * @p: the task in question.
> + *
> + * Return: The nice value [ -20 ... 0 ... 19 ].
> + */
> +static inline int task_nice(const struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> + return TASK_NICE(p);
> +}

Urgh, no. Just remove the macro already. Although arguably we should
remove ->static_prio and clean up that entire mess.
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