linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: don't try to balance rt

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Message-ID: <20140520163651.GY2485@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Tue, 20 May 2014 18:36:51 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: don't try to balance rt_runtime when it is
 futile

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 06:24:36PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Of course one can argue that we can find out that the task is resuming in userspace from
> CPU 0 scheduler entry without the need for previous context tracking, but I couldn't find safe
> solution for that. This is because probing on user/kernel boundaries can only be done
> in the soft way, throught explicit function calls. So there is an inevitable shift
> between soft and hard boundaries, between what we probe and what we can guess.

you can hook into set_task_cpu(), not sure its going to be pretty, but
that is _the_ place to hook migration related nonsense.
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