linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: resched proper CPU on yield

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:52:10 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>
CC:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: resched proper CPU on yield_to

On 03/01/2011 07:28 PM, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> yield_to_task_fair() has code to resched the CPU of yielding task when the
> intention is to resched the CPU of the task that is being yielded to.
>
> Change here fixes the problem and also makes the resched conditional on
> rq != p_rq.
>
> I don't have a setup to test this code path. So, this is only compile tested
> right now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi<venki@...gle.com>

Never mind what I wrote before.  Your patch is correct.
(and I am way tired)

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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