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Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation

From	luca abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation
Date	2016-04-05 21:40 +0200
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On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 20:00:50 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 07:56:57PM +0200, luca abeni wrote:
> > > > +	if (rq != cpu_rq(cpu)) {
> > > 
> > > I don't think this is right, you want:
> > > 
> > > 	if (task_cpu(p) != cpu) {
> > > 
> > > because @cpu does not need to be task_cpu().
> > Uhm... I must have misunderstood something in the code, then :(
> > What I want to do here is to check if select_task_rq_dl() selected
> > a new CPU for this task... Since at the beginning of the function
> > rq is set as
> > 	rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
> > I was thinkint about checking if this is still true (if not, it
> > means that the value of "cpu" changed).
> > 
> > I'll look at it again.
> 
> Basically because:
> 
>   ac66f5477239 ("sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap()")

Thanks; I am going to look at it


			Thanks,
				Luca

> 
> we cannot (in general) assume .cpu == task_cpu(p).
> 
> Now it might still be true for deadline tasks, but I find it easier to
> simply not rely on such assumptions.

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Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-05 17:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation luca abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> - 2016-04-05 20:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-05 20:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation luca abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> - 2016-04-05 21:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-05 21:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation luca abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> - 2016-04-05 21:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-05 20:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation luca abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> - 2016-04-05 21:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-05 20:20 +0200

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