Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/22] sched: SCHED_DEADLINE handles spacialkthreads

From: Dario Faggioli
Date: Thu Nov 11 2010 - 10:50:27 EST


On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Since SCHED_DEADLINE is now the highest priority scheduling class
> > these tasks have to be handled therein, but it is not obvious how
> > to choose a runtime and a deadline that guarantee what explained
> > above. Therefore, we need a mean of recognizing system tasks inside
> > the -deadline class and always run them as soon as possible, without
> > any kind of runtime and bandwidth limitation.
>
> Yet in the previous patch you had this hunk:
>
> > +++ b/kernel/sched_stoptask.c
> > @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ get_rr_interval_stop(struct rq *rq, struct
> > task_struct *task)
> > * Simple, special scheduling class for the per-CPU stop tasks:
> > */
> > static const struct sched_class stop_sched_class = {
> > - .next = &rt_sched_class,
> > + .next = &dl_sched_class,
> >
> > .enqueue_task = enqueue_task_stop,
> > .dequeue_task = dequeue_task_stop,
>
Yep. And (as said on IRC) this needs serious cleanup, in favour of
stop_task!

I'll completely drop patch 06 for next releases.

Thanks,
Dario

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