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Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] sched: optimize migration by forcing rmb() and updating to be called once

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] sched: optimize migration by forcing rmb() and updating to be called once
Date 2015-11-09 14:30 +0100
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 01:16:21AM +0900, byungchul.park@lge.com wrote:
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -1264,6 +1264,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_cpus_allowed_ptr);
>  
>  void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
>  {
> +	unsigned int prev_cpu = task_cpu(p);
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG
>  	/*
>  	 * We should never call set_task_cpu() on a blocked task,
> @@ -1289,15 +1291,14 @@ void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int new_cpu)
>  #endif
>  
>  	trace_sched_migrate_task(p, new_cpu);
> +	__set_task_cpu(p, new_cpu);
>  
> -	if (task_cpu(p) != new_cpu) {
> +	if (prev_cpu != new_cpu) {
>  		if (p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq)
> -			p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq(p, new_cpu);
> +			p->sched_class->migrate_task_rq(p, prev_cpu);
>  		p->se.nr_migrations++;
>  		perf_event_task_migrate(p);
>  	}
> -
> -	__set_task_cpu(p, new_cpu);
>  }

I don't think this is safe, see the comment in __set_task_cpu(). We want
that to be last.

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Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] sched: optimize migration by forcing rmb() and  updating to be called once Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-11-09 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] sched: optimize migration by forcing rmb() and  updating to be called once Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> - 2015-11-10 02:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] sched: optimize migration by forcing rmb() and  updating to be called once Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-11-10 13:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] sched: optimize migration by forcing rmb() and  updating to be called once Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> - 2015-11-11 01:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] sched: optimize migration by forcing rmb() and  updating to be called once Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> - 2015-11-11 11:20 +0100

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