Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 2/2] sched/deadline: Initialize cp->elements[].cpu to an invalid value

From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Date: Mon Nov 13 2017 - 07:47:01 EST


On 10/12/2017 09:57 AM, Byungchul Park wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 03:44:04PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
>> Currently, migrating tasks to cpu0 unconditionally happens when the
>> heap is empty, since cp->elements[].cpu was initialized to 0(=cpu0).
>> We have to distinguish between the empty case and cpu0 to avoid the
>> unnecessary migrantions. Therefore, it has to return an invalid value

s/migrantions/migrations/ ?

>> e.i. -1 in that case.
>
> This patch does what it should obviously do. Could you check this?
>
>> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@xxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c | 10 +++++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
>> index 9f02035..bcf903f 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
>> @@ -138,6 +138,12 @@ int cpudl_find(struct cpudl *cp, struct task_struct *p,
>> int best_cpu = cpudl_maximum_cpu(cp);
>> WARN_ON(best_cpu != -1 && !cpu_present(best_cpu));
>>
>> + /*
>> + * The heap tree is empry for now, just return.

s/empry/empty/ ?

>> + */
>> + if (best_cpu == -1)
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> if (cpumask_test_cpu(best_cpu, &p->cpus_allowed) &&
>> dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, cpudl_maximum_dl(cp))) {
>> if (later_mask)
>> @@ -265,8 +271,10 @@ int cpudl_init(struct cpudl *cp)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>> }
>>
>> - for_each_possible_cpu(i)
>> + for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
>> + cp->elements[i].cpu = -1;
>> cp->elements[i].idx = IDX_INVALID;
>> + }
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>> --
>> 1.9.1