linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Remove unnecessary condition in push_dl

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:55:47 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>
Cc:     Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        juri.lelli@...il.com, kernel-team@....com,
        Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: Remove unnecessary condition in
 push_dl_task()

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:45:03 +0000
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com> wrote:

> > 
> >   task = pick_next_pushable_dl_task(rq);
> > 
> > Which has:
> > 
> >   BUG_ON(rq->cpu != task_cpu(task))
> > 
> > when it returns a task other than NULL. Which means that task_cpu(task)
> > must be rq->cpu. Then if task == next_task, then task_cpu(next_task)
> > must be rq->cpu as well.  
> 
> Right.

Perhaps my comment should also be added in the change log.

-- Steve