Re: Question about prio_changed_dl()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Feb 25 2016 - 09:52:12 EST


On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 03:25:58PM +0100, luca abeni wrote:

> > > (BTW, it seems to me that switched_to_dl() is never invoked, for
> > > some reason...)
> >
> > Hmm, it should be invoked if you do sched_setattr() to get
> > SCHED_DEADLINE.
>
> Sorry, that was me being confused...
> It is prio_changed_dl() that is not invoked when the deadline
> parameters are changed (I am testing a change to fix this - it actually
> is included in the "Move the remaining __dl_{sub,add}_ac() calls from
> core.c to deadline.c" patch I posted on Monday; I am going to extract
> it in a separate patch).

Ah ok. So the idea was that the || dl_task() part would ensure
->prio_changed() would always be called.

I'll await your patch.