linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:41:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5714ABD9.80002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1604181059200.3941@nanos>

On 2016/04/18 at 17:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>> On 2016/04/18 at 16:23, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>>>> We should deboost before waking the high-prio task such that
>>>> we don't run two tasks with the 'same' priority.
>>> No. This is fundamentaly broken.
>>>  
>>> T1 (prio 0)	lock(X)
>>>
>>> -->	 	preemption
>>>
>>> T2 (prio 10)	lock(X)
>>>    	 	boost(T1)
>>> 		schedule()
>>>
>>> T1 (prio 10)	unlock(X)
>> We add a preempt_disable() before deboost to avoid the breakage,
>> there's also some comment about this in the patch's code.
> So the changelog is useless and misleading. Neither does it explain what's
> wrong with having two tasks with the same priority in running state.

Sorry about that, will improve it.

Regards,
Xunlei

>
> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
>
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-18  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-14 11:37 [PATCH v3 0/6] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Fix two deadline PI issues Xunlei Pang
2016-04-14 11:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Xunlei Pang
2016-04-18  8:23   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-18  8:44     ` Xunlei Pang
2016-04-18  9:02       ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-18  9:41         ` Xunlei Pang [this message]
2016-04-20 12:20         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-20 12:43           ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-20 13:10             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-14 11:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks Xunlei Pang
2016-04-20 13:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-20 13:49     ` Xunlei Pang
2016-04-22  3:26       ` Xunlei Pang
2016-04-14 11:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] rtmutex: Move "rt_mutex_waiter" definition to "include/linux/rtmutex.h" Xunlei Pang
2016-04-14 11:37 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] sched: Move dl_policy() to "include/linux/sched.h" Xunlei Pang
2016-04-14 11:37 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Fix unprotected PI access in enqueue_task_dl() Xunlei Pang
2016-04-14 15:31   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-15  1:58     ` Xunlei Pang
2016-04-15  2:19       ` Xunlei Pang
2016-04-20 12:25         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-20 13:00           ` Xunlei Pang
2016-04-20 13:17             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-20 13:45               ` Xunlei Pang
2016-04-14 11:37 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Don't miss the dl_runtime/dl_period update Xunlei Pang
2017-03-23 14:56 [PATCH -v3 0/8] PI vs SCHED_DEADLINE fixes Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 1/8] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-04  9:48   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Xunlei Pang
2017-04-05  8:08     ` Mike Galbraith
2017-04-05 14:55       ` [tip:locking/core] Retiplockingcore_rtmutex_Deboost_before_waking_up_the_top_waiter tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2017-04-05 15:03       ` [tip:locking/core] rtmutex: Plug preempt count leak in rt_mutex_futex_unlock() tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2017-04-06  6:16       ` [tip:locking/core] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Xunlei Pang
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 2/8] sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-04  9:49   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Xunlei Pang
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 3/8] sched/deadline/rtmutex: Dont miss the dl_runtime/dl_period update Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-04  9:50   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Xunlei Pang
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 4/8] rtmutex: Clean up Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-23 18:21   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-04-04  9:50   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 5/8] sched/rtmutex: Refactor rt_mutex_setprio() Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-04  9:51   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 6/8] sched,tracing: Update trace_sched_pi_setprio() Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-04  9:51   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 7/8] rtmutex: Fix PI chain order integrity Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-04  9:52   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-23 14:56 ` [PATCH -v3 8/8] rtmutex: Fix more prio comparisons Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-04  9:52   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5714ABD9.80002@redhat.com \
    --to=xpang@redhat.com \
    --cc=juri.lelli@arm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=xlpang@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).