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Story of find_busiest_group() cleanup.

Posted by ego on 03.26.2009 · 2 Comments

Last year, around the same time, I had ranted about this function named find_busiest_group() in kernel/sched.c. This is one humongous function which can so easily scare the sh*t out of any programmer who sees it for the first time. Partly due to it’s sheer size, which spanned over lines, next due to the presence of [...]