Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: readjust the load whenever task_setprio()is invoked

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 08:42:47 EST


On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:37 -0600, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> The load may change with the priority, so be sure to recompute its value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Right, but in this case we'd need to do the dec/inc load game again
because otherwise we'll skew stuff - see the previuos mail on how
dequeue_task() doesn't actually do that.

Also, it looks like current mainline still has this issue.

OTOH - since prio boosting is a temporal feature, not changing the load
isn't too bad, we ought to get back to where we came from pretty
quickly.



> ---
>
> kernel/sched.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index b046754..c3f41b9 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -4637,6 +4637,7 @@ void task_setprio(struct task_struct *p, int prio)
> p->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
>
> p->prio = prio;
> + set_load_weight(p);
>
> // trace_special_pid(p->pid, __PRIO(oldprio), PRIO(p));
> prev_resched = _need_resched();
>

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