From: Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>
To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Tianyang Chen <tiche@seas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] xen: sched: close potential races when switching scheduler to CPUs
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:25:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAENZ-+kcBHo8gzQQ4WXAexkfMgB741fh1G92wM5EAVUeuVb31Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160318190505.8117.89778.stgit@Solace.station>
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Dario Faggioli
<dario.faggioli@citrix.com> wrote:
> by using the sched_switch hook that we have introduced in
> the various schedulers.
>
> The key is to let the actual switch of scheduler and the
> remapping of the scheduler lock for the CPU (if necessary)
> happen together (in the same critical section) protected
> (at least) by the old scheduler lock for the CPU.
>
> This also means that, in Credit2 and RTDS, we can get rid
> of the code that was doing the scheduler lock remapping
> in csched2_free_pdata() and rt_free_pdata(), and of their
> triggering ASSERT-s.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
> ---
> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
> Cc: Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>
> Cc: Tianyang Chen <tiche@seas.upenn.edu>
> ---
> xen/common/sched_credit.c | 9 +++++++++
> xen/common/sched_credit2.c | 28 ++++++++++------------------
> xen/common/sched_rt.c | 13 -------------
> xen/common/schedule.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
For the sched_rt.c and schedule.c,
Reviewed-by: Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>
-----------
Meng Xu
PhD Student in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-18 19:03 [PATCH 00/16] Fixes and improvement (including hard affinity!) for Credit2 Dario Faggioli
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 01/16] xen: sched: fix locking when allocating an RTDS pCPU Dario Faggioli
2016-03-19 2:22 ` Meng Xu
2016-03-23 15:37 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 02/16] xen: sched: add .init_pdata hook to the scheduler interface Dario Faggioli
2016-03-22 8:08 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-23 17:32 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 03/16] xen: sched: make implementing .alloc_pdata optional Dario Faggioli
2016-03-19 2:23 ` Meng Xu
2016-03-21 14:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-23 17:36 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-24 9:43 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-24 13:14 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-21 14:48 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-21 15:07 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-01 17:01 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-04 4:21 ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-04 6:13 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-05 16:01 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-23 17:38 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 04/16] xen: sched: implement .init_pdata in all schedulers Dario Faggioli
2016-03-19 2:24 ` Meng Xu
2016-03-22 8:03 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-23 17:46 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 05/16] xen: sched: move pCPU initialization in an helper Dario Faggioli
2016-03-23 17:51 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-23 18:09 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-24 13:21 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 06/16] xen: sched: prepare a .switch_sched hook for Credit1 Dario Faggioli
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 07/16] xen: sched: prepare a .switch_sched hook for Credit2 Dario Faggioli
2016-03-18 19:04 ` [PATCH 08/16] " Dario Faggioli
2016-03-19 2:24 ` Meng Xu
2016-03-21 14:25 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-18 19:05 ` [PATCH 09/16] xen: sched: close potential races when switching scheduler to CPUs Dario Faggioli
2016-03-19 2:25 ` Meng Xu [this message]
2016-03-23 19:05 ` George Dunlap
2016-04-05 16:26 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-06 15:51 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-24 12:14 ` George Dunlap
2016-04-05 17:37 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-06 16:21 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-18 19:05 ` [PATCH 10/16] xen: sched: improve credit2 bootparams' scope, placement and signedness Dario Faggioli
2016-03-21 14:51 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-24 12:20 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:05 ` [PATCH 11/16] xen: sched: on Credit2, don't reprogram the timer if idle Dario Faggioli
2016-03-24 15:03 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:05 ` [PATCH 12/16] xen: sched: fix per-socket runqueue creation in credit2 Dario Faggioli
2016-03-24 12:24 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:05 ` [PATCH 13/16] xen: sched: allow for choosing credit2 runqueues configuration at boot Dario Faggioli
2016-03-22 7:46 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-24 12:36 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:05 ` [PATCH 14/16] xen: sched: per-core runqueues as default in credit2 Dario Faggioli
2016-03-24 12:37 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 19:06 ` [PATCH 15/16] xen: sched: scratch space for cpumasks on Credit2 Dario Faggioli
2016-03-18 19:27 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-24 12:44 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-24 12:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-24 13:10 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-18 19:06 ` [PATCH 16/16] xen: sched: implement vcpu hard affinity in Credit2 Dario Faggioli
2016-03-24 15:42 ` George Dunlap
2016-04-05 16:50 ` Dario Faggioli
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