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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:37:32 +0000
From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
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To: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/deadline: fix start high-res preemption tick
 for a non-running task
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Hi,

not sure I understand what the problem is here.

On 11/11/14 01:52, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Queued ticks are scheduled to match the budget, which means the budget 
> is overall consumed and the dl task should be throttled.

... enforce the budget? It means that when the budget is consumed the
task has to be throttled...

> Dl task will 
> be replenished immediately if fail to start a dl timer. 
> 
> However, the curr maybe not the left most dl task in the rb tree any 
> more after this immediately replenished and reschedule is needed. 
> Start high-res preemption tick for this upcoming rescheduled dl task 
> is not correct. 
> 

So, the task that is going to preempt curr is picked by
pick_next_task_dl(), that correctly starts the hrtick for this new task.

Maybe you can add more information about what you are seeing? A callpath
maybe?

Thanks,

- Juri

> This patch fix it by not starting high-res preemption tick for a 
> non-running dl task.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/deadline.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index 56674f6..2a6a5bb 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -1090,7 +1090,8 @@ static void task_tick_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int queued)
>  {
>  	update_curr_dl(rq);
>  
> -	if (hrtick_enabled(rq) && queued && p->dl.runtime > 0)
> +	if (hrtick_enabled(rq) && queued && p->dl.runtime > 0 &&
> +	    is_leftmost(p, &rq->dl))
>  		start_hrtick_dl(rq, p);
>  }
>  
> 

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