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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Linux PM <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Fixes: e33a9bb "sched/core: move IO scheduling accounting from io_schedule_timeout() into scheduler" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
zarubaf · Oct 4, 2018 · 9c2298a · 9c2298a
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diff --git 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)