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[tip:sched/core] sched/core: Fix comment regarding nr_iowait_cpu() and get_iowait_load()

Message ID tip-9c2298aad355d8c1957df3015448fef333526934@git.kernel.org (mailing list archive)
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Series [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Fix comment regarding nr_iowait_cpu() and get_iowait_load() | expand

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tip-bot for Kobe Wu Oct. 4, 2018, 10:04 a.m. UTC 
Commit-ID:  9c2298aad355d8c1957df3015448fef333526934
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/9c2298aad355d8c1957df3015448fef333526934
Author:     Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 11:05:14 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 11:25:56 +0200

sched/core: Fix comment regarding nr_iowait_cpu() and get_iowait_load()

The comment related to nr_iowait_cpu() and get_iowait_load() confuses
cpufreq with cpuidle and is not very useful for this reason, so fix it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: e33a9bba85a8 "sched/core: move IO scheduling accounting from io_schedule_timeout() into scheduler"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3803514.xkx7zY50tF@aspire.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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 kernel/sched/core.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 56b3c1781276..fe0223121883 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2916,10 +2916,10 @@  unsigned long nr_iowait(void)
 }
 
 /*
- * Consumers of these two interfaces, like for example the cpufreq menu
- * governor are using nonsensical data. Boosting frequency for a CPU that has
- * IO-wait which might not even end up running the task when it does become
- * runnable.
+ * Consumers of these two interfaces, like for example the cpuidle menu
+ * governor, are using nonsensical data. Preferring shallow idle state selection
+ * for a CPU that has IO-wait which might not even end up running the task when
+ * it does become runnable.
  */
 
 unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu)