Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752567Ab2HTQQz (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:16:55 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:56429 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751741Ab2HTQQx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:16:53 -0400 Message-ID: <1345479400.23018.73.camel@twins> Subject: Re: Add rq->nr_uninterruptible count to dest cpu's rq while CPU goes down. From: Peter Zijlstra To: Rakib Mullick Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:16:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1345124749.31092.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1345125384.29668.30.camel@twins> <1345128138.29668.42.camel@twins> <1345139199.29668.46.camel@twins> <1345454817.23018.27.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1698 Lines: 43 On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 22:10 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote: > > > First of all, you've misspelled my name, it's Rakib not Rabik. Damn, sorry!, lysdexic that.. > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c > > index 4376c9f..06d23c6 100644 > > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c > > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c > > @@ -5338,27 +5338,17 @@ void idle_task_exit(void) > > } > > > > /* > > - * While a dead CPU has no uninterruptible tasks queued at this point, > > - * it might still have a nonzero ->nr_uninterruptible counter, because > > - * for performance reasons the counter is not stricly tracking tasks to > > - * their home CPUs. So we just add the counter to another CPU's counter, > > - * to keep the global sum constant after CPU-down: > > - */ > > -static void migrate_nr_uninterruptible(struct rq *rq_src) > > -{ > > - struct rq *rq_dest = cpu_rq(cpumask_any(cpu_active_mask)); > > - > > - rq_dest->nr_uninterruptible += rq_src->nr_uninterruptible; > > - rq_src->nr_uninterruptible = 0; > > -} > > - > > -/* > > - * remove the tasks which were accounted by rq from calc_load_tasks. > > + * Since this CPU is going 'away' for a while, fold any nr_active delta > > + * we might have. Assumes we're called after migrate_tasks() so that the > > + * nr_active count is stable. > > + * > But after migrate_tasks(), it's likely that rq->nr_running will be 1. > Then, nr_active will be screwed. No? Gah indeed. let me try that again. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/