Re: [PATCH] small optimization to update_curr_rt

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Nov 03 2008 - 05:29:44 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:03 -0500, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:
> > A very minor improvement, but might it be better to check sched_rt_runtime(rt_rq)
> > before taking the rt_runtime_lock?
>
> Yes, I think its ok to do so.
>
> Like pointed out in the other thread, there are two races:
>
> - sched_rt_runtime() going to RUNTIME_INF, and that will be handled
> properly by sched_rt_runtime_exceeded()
>
> - sched_rt_runtime() going to !RUNTIME_INF, and here we can miss an
> accounting cycle, but I don't think that is something to worry too
> much about.
>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/sched/rt, thanks guys!

Ingo
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