linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: correct how RT task is picked

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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 17:20:47 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: correct how RT task is picked

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 11:15 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 22:46 +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> 
> > For migration, it is the case that cpu != rq->cpu, and
> > if cpu is allowed by task's affinity, it is bug that task
> > could not goto cpu because of nr_cpus_allowed since
> > the nr_cpus_allowed is computed based on the cpus_allowed mask.
> 
> Right, that nr_cpus_allowed was to be a short cut, so we did not have to
> look at the cpu mask. But as that check came after, it was pointless.
> Perhaps that too was a relic with the cpu < 0 case.
> 
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Hillf could you send a final patch with a proper changelog and Steven's
ack? From what I can see the latest patch is burried somewhere in this
discussion thread and is without changelog.
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