From: luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
To: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com>,
Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>,
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>,
Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] sched/dl: Capacity-aware migrations
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 09:41:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190708094136.7bce5f46@sweethome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b920d85b-4228-52fd-22db-3a0c26cf8ebd@arm.com>
Hi Dietmar,
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 14:05:22 +0200
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> wrote:
> On 5/6/19 6:48 AM, Luca Abeni wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> > index 5b981eeeb944..3436f3d8fa8f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> > @@ -1584,6 +1584,9 @@ select_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p, int
> > cpu, int sd_flag, int flags) if (sd_flag != SD_BALANCE_WAKE)
> > goto out;
> >
> > + if (dl_entity_is_special(&p->dl))
> > + goto out;
>
> I wonder if this is really required. The if condition
>
> 1591 if (unlikely(dl_task(curr)) &&
> 1592 (curr->nr_cpus_allowed < 2 ||
> 1593 !dl_entity_preempt(&p->dl, &curr->dl)) &&
> 1594 (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1)) {
>
> further below uses '!dl_entity_preempt(&p->dl, &curr->dl))' which
> returns 'dl_entity_is_special(a) || ...'
Uhm... I do not remember the details; I remember that the check fixed
something during the development of the patchset, but I did not check
if it was still needed when I forward-ported the patches...
So, maybe it worked around some bugs in previous versions of the
kernel, but is not needed now.
Luca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-08 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-06 4:48 [RFC PATCH 0/6] Capacity awareness for SCHED_DEADLINE Luca Abeni
2019-05-06 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] sched/dl: Improve deadline admission control for asymmetric CPU capacities Luca Abeni
2019-05-07 13:48 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-07 13:55 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-05-07 14:02 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-07 14:25 ` luca abeni
2019-05-07 14:31 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-07 14:43 ` luca abeni
2019-07-08 11:22 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-07-08 15:05 ` Quentin Perret
2019-06-18 16:41 ` Alessio Balsini
2019-05-06 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] sched/dl: Capacity-aware migrations Luca Abeni
2019-05-07 13:35 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-07 14:17 ` luca abeni
2019-05-07 15:04 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-07 14:10 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-07 14:41 ` luca abeni
2019-05-07 15:02 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-08 8:04 ` Juri Lelli
2019-05-08 8:17 ` luca abeni
2019-07-04 12:05 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-07-08 7:41 ` luca abeni [this message]
2019-07-08 10:41 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-05-06 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] sched/dl: Try better placement even for deadline tasks that do not block Luca Abeni
2019-05-07 14:13 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-07 16:00 ` Morten Rasmussen
2019-05-08 8:01 ` Juri Lelli
2019-05-08 8:14 ` luca abeni
2019-05-08 9:22 ` Juri Lelli
2019-07-08 13:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-09 13:24 ` luca abeni
2019-07-09 13:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-11 11:17 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-07-11 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-11 15:33 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-07-09 14:44 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-05-06 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] sched/dl: Improve capacity-aware wakeup Luca Abeni
2019-05-08 9:08 ` Juri Lelli
2019-05-08 9:24 ` luca abeni
2019-05-08 12:05 ` Juri Lelli
2019-05-08 12:47 ` luca abeni
2019-05-08 13:10 ` Juri Lelli
2019-05-08 14:12 ` luca abeni
2019-05-06 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] sched/dl: If the task does not fit anywhere, select the fastest core Luca Abeni
2019-05-06 4:48 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] sched/dl: Try not to select a too fast core Luca Abeni
2019-05-07 15:57 ` Quentin Perret
2019-05-08 6:26 ` luca abeni
2019-05-09 13:46 ` Quentin Perret
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