linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/40] sched: implement __set_cpus

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:56:10 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, awalls@...ix.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, arjan@...ux.intel.com, avi@...hat.com,
	johannes@...solutions.net, andi@...stfloor.org,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/40] sched: implement __set_cpus_allowed()

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 09:57 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr() modifies the allowed cpu mask of a task.  The
> function performs the following checks before applying new mask.
> 
> * Check whether PF_THREAD_BOUND is set.  This is set for bound
>   kthreads so that they can't be moved around.
> 
> * Check whether the target cpu is still marked active - cpu_active().
>   Active state is cleared early while downing a cpu.
> 
> This patch adds __set_cpus_allowed() which takes @force parameter
> which when true makes __set_cpus_allowed() ignore PF_THREAD_BOUND and
> use cpu online state instead of active state for the latter.  This
> allows migrating tasks to CPUs as long as they are online.
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is implemented as inline wrapper around
> __set_cpus_allowed().
> 
> Due to the way migration is implemented, the @force parameter needs to
> be passed over to the migration thread.  @force parameter is added to
> struct migration_req and passed to __migrate_task().
> 
> Please note the naming discrepancy between set_cpus_allowed_ptr() and
> the new functions.  The _ptr suffix is from the days when cpumask API
> wasn't mature and future changes should drop it from
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr() too.
> 
> NOTE: It would be nice to implement kthread_bind() in terms of
>       __set_cpus_allowed() if we can drop the capability to bind to a
>       dead CPU from kthread_bind(), which doesn't seem too popular
>       anyway.  With such change, we'll have set_cpus_allowed_ptr() for
>       regular tasks and kthread_bind() for kthreads and can use
>       PF_THREAD_BOUND instead of passing @force parameter around.


And your changelog still sucks... it only says what it does, not why.

still hate the patch too.

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