Re: [PATCH 3/7] sched/deadline: reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Tue Apr 07 2015 - 19:16:17 EST


Hi Juri,
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:48:12PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 06/04/2015 09:53, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> This patch adds check that prevents futile attempts to move dl tasks to
>> a CPU with active tasks of equal or earlier deadline. The same behavior as
>> commit 80e3d87b2c55 ("sched/rt: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating
>> locking of non-feasible target") for rt class.
>>
>
>This commit introduced also this kind of check in find_lock_lowest_rq().
>Don't we need something like this in find_lock_later_rq() as well?
>

Good point, will do. Great thanks for your review. :)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

>Thanks,
>
>- Juri
>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/deadline.c | 4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
>> index 3bd3158..b8b9355 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
>> @@ -1012,7 +1012,9 @@ select_task_rq_dl(struct task_struct *p, int cpu, int sd_flag, int flags)
>> (p->nr_cpus_allowed > 1)) {
>> int target = find_later_rq(p);
>>
>> - if (target != -1)
>> + if (target != -1 &&
>> + dl_time_before(p->dl.deadline,
>> + cpu_rq(target)->dl.earliest_dl.curr))
>> cpu = target;
>> }
>> rcu_read_unlock();
>>
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