linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] Return available first timeslice to the creator, not parent

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:09:39 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] Return available first timeslice to the creator, not parent

On 08/30, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:49 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > 
> > sched_exit() was removed in 2.6.23-rc.
> > 
> > If you are going to re-introduce this logic, please don't do sched_exit()
> > from release_task(). It was done this way just because we can't access
> > ->parent after release_task(). But release_task() is called either too
> > early, or too late for timeslice accounting, depending on ->exit_signal == -1.
> > 
> > I'd suggest to do this in do_exit(), before the last schedule(). Without
> > write_unlock_irq() the code above needs a couple of rcu_read_lock()'s.
> > 
> > I am not sure Ingo will like this change though...
> 
> This is not intended as re-introduction of the feature, this stems from
> fixing this issue in older (read distro) kernels.

Ah, good, sorry for noise then.

In that case I don't think it makes sense to move sched_exit() to do_exit(),
of course. This doesn't look suitable for the -stable tree.

Oleg.

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