linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 045/115] sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline

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Message-ID: <b69c5fee-a284-776c-3790-e1b79444b9e2@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:16:01 +0100
From:   Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@...c.br>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@...up.it>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 045/115] sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained
 deadline task activated after the deadline

On 01/19/2018 08:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:00:45AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 16:48 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me
>>> know.
>>>
>>> ------------------
>>>
>>> From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> [ Upstream commit df8eac8cafce7d086be3bd5cf5a838fa37594dfb ]
>> [...]
>>
>> I think this needs another fix on top:
>>
>> commit ae83b56a56f8d9643dedbee86b457fa1c5d42f59
>> Author: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...hat.com>
>> Date:   Wed May 10 21:03:37 2017 +0800
>>
>>     sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks
> 
> Now queued up, thanks.
> 
>> There's another fix related to this, but it doesn't appear to fix a
>> regression and I don't know how critical it is:
>>
>> commit 3effcb4247e74a51f5d8b775a1ee4abf87cc089a
>> Author: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>
>> Date:   Mon May 29 16:24:03 2017 +0200
>>
>>     sched/deadline: Use the revised wakeup rule for suspending constrained dl tasks
> 
> I'll hold off on this one until someone actually asks for it, as it's a
> big change.
> 
> thanks again for the review,

Hi,

This fix is also needed. Do you guys need some help in the backport? if
so, please let me know! I will be glad to help.

-- Daniel

> 
> greg k-h
>