Re: On migrate_disable() and latencies

[Yong Zhang]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:30:08AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> o	Tasks awakening outside of migrate-disable regions will pick
> 	the CPU running the lowest-priority task, whether or not this
> 	task is in migrate-disable state.  (At least I don't see
> 	anything in 3.0-rt3 that looks like a scheduling decision
> 	based on ->migrate_disable, perhaps due to blindness.)

I'm also confused here, seems we just disable migration for RT task.
migrate_disable()
{
	...
		if (p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed)
			p->sched_class->set_cpus_allowed(p, mask);
		p->rt.nr_cpus_allowed =	cpumask_weight(mask);
	...
}

Shouldn't we also forbid migration on !RT task?

Thanks,
Yong

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