linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/16] sched: SCHED

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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:53:43 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE push and pull logic

On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 14:50 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Something like so: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/16/487 ?
> 
> But it still does the same thing:
> 
> +static struct task_struct *
> +pick_next_task_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
>  {
> -       struct task_struct *p = _pick_next_task_rt(rq);
> +       struct task_struct *p;
> +       struct rt_rq *rt_rq = &rq->rt;
> +
> +       if (!rt_rq->rt_nr_running)
> +               return NULL;
> +
> +       if (rt_rq_throttled(rt_rq))
> +               return NULL;
> +
> +       if (prev)
> +               prev->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, prev);
> +
> +       p = _pick_next_task_rt(rq);
> 
> Now if we can do the _pick_next_task_rt() before put_prev_task(), and
> only do the put_prev_task() if p != prev, then that would be something.

Well that's up to the implementation of pick_next_task_rt() that
conversion is just a minimal make it work thing.

But the generic changes that patch carries should allow you to do what
you want, right?
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