Re: [PATCH 7/7] sched: implement try_to_wake_up_local()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Dec 07 2009 - 03:51:02 EST


On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 12:26 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 12/04/2009 07:44 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 12:56 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >
> >> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> >> @@ -2410,6 +2410,10 @@ static inline void ttwu_woken_up(struct task_struct *p, struct rq *rq,
> >> rq->idle_stamp = 0;
> >> }
> >> #endif
> >> + /*
> >> + * Wake up is complete, fire wake up notifier. This allows
> >> + * try_to_wake_up_local() to be called from wake up notifiers.
> >> + */
> >> if (success)
> >> fire_sched_notifiers(p, wakeup);
> >> }
> >
> >> @@ -5437,6 +5488,11 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible:
> >> if (unlikely(signal_pending_state(prev->state, prev))) {
> >> prev->state = TASK_RUNNING;
> >> } else {
> >> + /*
> >> + * Fire sleep notifier before changing any scheduler
> >> + * state. This allows try_to_wake_up_local() to be
> >> + * called from sleep notifiers.
> >> + */
> >> fire_sched_notifiers(prev, sleep);
> >> deactivate_task(rq, prev, 1);
> >> }
> >
> > These two hunks seem to belong to patch 6
>
> Hmmm... it was intentional as, before this patch, there's no
> try_to_wake_up_local() so it was strange to mention it in the comment.
> I can move the comments but I don't think it's particularly better
> that way.

/me reads the comments and goes ah!

OK, maybe you've got a point there ;-)

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