Re: [PATCH -rt 2/5] Thread Migration Preemption - v2

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat Jul 14 2007 - 16:48:25 EST


On 07/14, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ struct rq {
>
> struct task_struct *migration_thread;
> struct list_head migration_queue;
> + struct list_head delayed_migration_queue;
> #endif

I think this could be simplified a bit.

delayed_migration_queue can be a local variable in migration_thread(), then

> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
> @@ -5623,6 +5624,11 @@ static int migration_thread(void *data)
> head = &rq->migration_queue;
>
> if (list_empty(head)) {
> + /*
> + * we got a wakeup, give the delayed list another shot.
> + */
> + if (current->state != TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)
> + list_splice(&rq->delayed_migration_queue, head);

No need to check TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, just do list_splice() unconditionally and
call schedule().

Oleg.

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