linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched/deadline: Fix double accounting of rq/running bw in push_dl

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:59:28 +0100
From:   Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
To:     luca abeni <luca.abeni@...tannapisa.it>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@....com>,
        Qais Yousef <Qais.Yousef@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched/deadline: Fix double accounting of rq/running
 bw in push_dl_task()

On 7/26/19 11:11 AM, luca abeni wrote:
> Hi Dietmar,
> 
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:27:52 +0100
> Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com> wrote:
> 
>> push_dl_task() always calls deactivate_task() with flags=0 which sets
>> p->on_rq=TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING.
> 
> Uhm... This is a recent change in the deactivate_task() behaviour,
> right? Because I tested SCHED_DEADLINE a lot, but I've never seen this
> issue :)

Looks like it was v5.2 commit 7dd778841164 ("sched/core: Unify p->on_rq
updates").

> Anyway, looking at the current code the change looks OK. Thanks for
> fixing this issue!

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