If a task lowers its priority (say by losing priority inheritance) if a higher priority task is waiting on another CPU, initiate a pull. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Index: linux-rt.git/kernel/sched/rt.c =================================================================== --- linux-rt.git.orig/kernel/sched/rt.c +++ linux-rt.git/kernel/sched/rt.c @@ -997,6 +997,8 @@ inc_rt_prio(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int pri inc_rt_prio_smp(rt_rq, prio, prev_prio); } +static int pull_rt_task(struct rq *this_rq); + static void dec_rt_prio(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int prio) { @@ -1021,6 +1023,10 @@ dec_rt_prio(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int pri rt_rq->highest_prio.curr = MAX_RT_PRIO; dec_rt_prio_smp(rt_rq, prio, prev_prio); + + /* Try to pull RT tasks here if we lower this rq's prio */ + if (prev_prio < rt_rq->highest_prio.curr) + pull_rt_task(rq_of_rt_rq(rt_rq)); } #else -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/