linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: fix SCHED_OTHER balance iterator to include all tasks

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Date:	Thu, 08 May 2008 10:11:25 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Bahi <dbahi@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix SCHED_OTHER balance iterator to include all
	tasks

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ingo,
> >  The follow patch applies to sched-devel.  I know the original 
> >  function was somehow trying to protect against dequeueing by 
> >  pre-iterating.  I am not sure if I captured the intent properly in 
> >  that regard.  What I can say is that the old algorithm would miss 
> >  tasks, and that is now fixed.  It may need further adjustment if I 
> >  missed the pre-iterating operation.
> > 
> > Hi Peter,
> >  I was wrong earlier when I mentioned there might be a problem with 
> >  entity_is_task().  I think this was the root cause of what I was 
> >  seeing. Sorry for the red-herring.
> 
> applied Gregory, thanks. Nice fix! Peter, do you concur with Gregory's 
> analysis?

Yeah,

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

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