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Date:   Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:53:04 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 045/115] sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:00:45AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 16:48 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.4-stable review patch.??If anyone has any objections, please let me
> > know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
> > 
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit df8eac8cafce7d086be3bd5cf5a838fa37594dfb ]
> [...]
> 
> I think this needs another fix on top:
> 
> commit ae83b56a56f8d9643dedbee86b457fa1c5d42f59
> Author: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
> Date:???Wed May 10 21:03:37 2017 +0800
> 
> ????sched/deadline: Zero out positive runtime after throttling constrained tasks

Now queued up, thanks.

> There's another fix related to this, but it doesn't appear to?fix a
> regression and I don't know how critical it is:
> 
> commit 3effcb4247e74a51f5d8b775a1ee4abf87cc089a
> Author: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
> Date:???Mon May 29 16:24:03 2017 +0200
> 
> ????sched/deadline: Use the revised wakeup rule for suspending constrained dl tasks

I'll hold off on this one until someone actually asks for it, as it's a
big change.

thanks again for the review,

greg k-h