linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 13/15] sched: Protect nohz task cpu affinity

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Message-ID: <1292862533.5021.41.camel@laptop>
Date:	Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:28:53 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
	Tim Pepper <lnxninja@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 13/15] sched: Protect nohz task cpu affinity

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 16:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Don't allow to change a nohz task cpu affinity as we want them
> to be bound to a single CPU and we want this affinity not to
> change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>
> Cc: Tim Pepper <lnxninja@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index 4412493..bd0a41f 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -5712,6 +5712,13 @@ again:
>  		goto out;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Nohz tasks must keep their affinity */
> +	if (test_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_NOHZ) &&
> +	    !cpumask_equal(&p->cpus_allowed, new_mask)) {
> +		ret = -EBUSY;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed)
>  		p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed(p, new_mask);
>  	else {

NAK, this is really way too restrictive.
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