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Date:   Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:40:03 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
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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 01:16:01PM +0100, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
> On 01/19/2018 08:53 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 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,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This fix is also needed. Do you guys need some help in the backport? if
> so, please let me know! I will be glad to help.

I've now backported it, was just some comment and formatting issues that
needed to be adjusted.

thanks,

greg k-h