linux-kernel - Re: [patch 02/15] sched: hierarchical task accounting for SCHED

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 16:17:48 +0900
From:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 02/15] sched: hierarchical task accounting for SCHED_OTHER

Some typos in the description.

(2011/05/03 18:28), Paul Turner wrote:
> Introduce hierarchal task accounting for the group scheduling case in CFS, as

            hierarchical 

> well as promoting the responsibility for maintaining rq->nr_running to the
> scheduling classes.
> 
> The primary motivation for this is that with scheduling classes supporting
> bandwidht throttling it is possible for entities participating in trottled

  bandwidth                                                         throttled

> sub-trees to not have root visible changes in rq->nr_running across activate
> and de-activate operations.  This in turn leads to incorrect idle and 
> weight-per-task load balance decisions.
> 
> This also allows us to make a small fixlet to the fastpath in pick_next_task()
> under group scheduling.
> 
> Note: this issue also exists with the existing sched_rt throttling mechanism.
> This patch does not address that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
> 
> ---

The patch is good.

Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>


Thanks,
H.Seto

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