linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: remove extraneous load manipulations

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Message-ID: <48850860.3030402@novell.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:06:24 -0400
From:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: remove extraneous load manipulations

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:37 -0600, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>   
>> commit 62fb185130e4d420f71a30ff59d8b16b74ef5d2b reverted some patches
>> in the scheduler, but it looks like it may have left a few redundant
>> calls to inc_load/dec_load remain in set_user_nice (since the
>>  dequeue_task/enqueue_task take care of the load.  This could result
>> in the load values being off since the load may change while dequeued.
>>     
>
> I just checked out v2.6.25.10 but cannot see dequeue_task() do it.
>   

Indeed.  I think my eyes glazed over the dequeue vs deactivate, and 
enqueue vs activate.   Good catch, and sorry for the noise.  I was wrong..

Please ignore this patch.

-Greg


> deactivate_task() otoh does do it.
>
> static void dequeue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sleep)
> {
> 	p->sched_class->dequeue_task(rq, p, sleep);
> 	p->se.on_rq = 0;
> }
>
> vs
>
> static void deactivate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int sleep)
> {
> 	if (task_contributes_to_load(p))
> 		rq->nr_uninterruptible++;
>
> 	dequeue_task(rq, p, sleep);
> 	dec_nr_running(p, rq);
> }
>
> where
>
> static void dec_nr_running(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq)
> {
> 	rq->nr_running--;
> 	dec_load(rq, p);
> }
>
> And since set_user_nice() actually changes the load we'd better not
> forget to do this dec/inc load stuff.
>
> So I'm thinking this patch would actually break stuff.
>
>   
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
>> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
>> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
>> ---
>>
>>  kernel/sched.c |    6 ++----
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
>> index 31f91d9..b046754 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
>> @@ -4679,10 +4679,8 @@ void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice)
>>  		goto out_unlock;
>>  	}
>>  	on_rq = p->se.on_rq;
>> -	if (on_rq) {
>> +	if (on_rq)
>>  		dequeue_task(rq, p, 0);
>> -		dec_load(rq, p);
>> -	}
>>  
>>  	p->static_prio = NICE_TO_PRIO(nice);
>>  	set_load_weight(p);
>> @@ -4692,7 +4690,7 @@ void set_user_nice(struct task_struct *p, long nice)
>>  
>>  	if (on_rq) {
>>  		enqueue_task(rq, p, 0);
>> -		inc_load(rq, p);
>> +
>>  		/*
>>  		 * If the task increased its priority or is running and
>>  		 * lowered its priority, then reschedule its CPU:
>>
>>     
>
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