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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:14:59 +0100
From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
To: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>
Cc: Connor O'Brien <connoro@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/11] sched/rt: Fix proxy/current (push,pull)ability
On 20/10/22 15:30, Juri Lelli wrote:
> On 19/10/22 18:05, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> One possible change here is to make the blocked chain migrate towards the
>> proxy rather than the owner - this makes scheduling priority considerations
>> a bit saner, but is bad towards the owner (migrating blocked tasks is
>> "cheap", migrating running tasks isn't).
>
> Plus we need to consider owner's affinity, maybe it can't really migrate
> towards proxy's CPU.
>
Right, "little" detail I forgot...
> It looks like in general we would like to perform load balancing
> decisions considering potential proxies attributes? Guess it might soon
> turn into a mess to implement, though.
I can't think of anything clever right now, but we do need something like
that to get "feature parity" with rtmutexes.
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