linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks

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Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:31:16 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks

On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 16:36 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Load weights are for the CFS, they do not belong in the RT
> task. This makes all RT scheduling classes leave the
> CFS weights alone.
> 
> This fixes a real bug as well: I noticed the following
> phonomena: a process elevated to SCHED_RR forks with
> SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK set, and the child is indeed SCHED_OTHER,
> and the niceval is indeed reset to 0. However the
> weight inserted by set_load_weight() remains at 0. giving the
> task insignificat priority.
> 
> With this fix, the weight is reset to what the task had before
> being elevated to SCHED_RR/SCHED_FIFO.
> 
> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>

Thanks, queued it up, we'll see if anything explodes ;-)
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