linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: fix conflict of schedule domain balance in RT scheduling

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Date:	Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:19:27 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix conflict of schedule domain balance in RT
 scheduling

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 21:58 +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:

> And checking for cache-hot is also added to confirm the comment there.

Please read that comment.

>  	cpu = task_cpu(p);
> @@ -1253,7 +1253,8 @@ static int find_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task)
>  	 * We prioritize the last cpu that the task executed on since
>  	 * it is most likely cache-hot in that location.
>  	 */
> -	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, lowest_mask))
> +	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, lowest_mask) &&
> +	    task_hot(task, task_rq(task)->clock_task, NULL))
>  		return cpu;

What task_hot() checks for and what we are assuming are two different
things. In fact, we can disable task_hot() so it always fails. That's
not what we want.

If the task happens to have ran on a CPU that is in the lowest_mask, we
want that CPU. Time may not matter. If we know a task ran on a
particular CPU last, we want to run it there if possible. It may still
have cache lines for it, even if it has been a long time since it last
ran.

-- Steve


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