linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 08/17] sched: Drop the rq argument to sched_class::select_task

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Message-ID: <20110103145902.GA7632@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:59:02 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@...sony.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 08/17] sched: Drop the rq argument to
	sched_class::select_task_rq()

On 01/03, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 22:31 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> > > -	/*
> > > -	 * select_task_rq() can race against ->cpus_allowed
> > > -	 */
> > > -	if (cpumask_test_cpu(dest_cpu, &p->cpus_allowed) &&
> > > -	    likely(cpu_active(dest_cpu)) && migrate_task(p, rq)) {
> > > +	if (likely(cpu_active(dest_cpu)) && need_migrate_task(p)) {
> >
> > If we drop rq_lock, need_migrate_task() maybe return true but
> > p is already running on other cpu. Thus we do a wrong migration
> > call.
>
> Yeah, too bad.. ;-) exec load balancing is more an optimistic thing
> anyway, if it got rebalanced under out feet we don't care.

I don't understand this need_migrate_task() at all (with or without
the patch). This task is current/running, it should always return T.

I guess, migrate_task() was needed before to initialize migration_req.

Oleg.

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