linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/30] sched: *_tsk_need_resched() now takes resched

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:10:44 +0100
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/30] sched: *_tsk_need_resched() now takes resched_t
 as param

On Tue, Feb 20 2024 at 14:37, Ankur Arora wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 12 2024 at 21:55, Ankur Arora wrote:
>>
>> The subject line reads odd...
>>
>>> -static inline bool test_tsk_need_resched(struct task_struct *tsk)
>>> +static inline bool test_tsk_need_resched(struct task_struct *tsk, resched_t rs)
>>>  {
>>> -	return unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk,TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
>>> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_AUTO) || rs == NR_now)
>>> +		return unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, tif_resched(rs)));
>>> +	else
>>> +		return false;
>>>  }
>>
>> Same like the others. This wants wrappers with now/lazy.
>
> So, when working on the scheduler changes, I found the simplest
> implementation was to define a function that takes into account
> current preemption mode, checks for idle, tick etc and returns
> the rescheduling policy, which __resched_curr() carries out.
>
> So, it would be useful to just pass the resched_t as a parameter
> instead of having now/lazy wrappers.

That's fine for specific functions which really need to handle the
rescheduling mode, but for all other random places having a nice wrapper
makes the code more readable.

Thanks,

        tglx