Re: [PATCH] x86/resctrl: fix redundant task movement

[Shakeel Butt]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:49 PM Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 04:22:22PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > Currently a task can be moved to a rdtgroup multiple times or between
> > resource or monitoring groups. This can cause multiple task works are
> > added, waste memory and degrade performance.
> >
> > To fix the issue, only move the task to a rdtgroup when the task
> > is not in the rdgroup. Don't try to move the task to the rdtgroup
> > again when the task is already in the rdtgroup.
>
> Hi, Shakeel,
>
> Acutally we are working on replacing the callback by a synchronous way
> to update closid and rmid when moving a task to a resource group. The
> reason is the task may use old (even invalid) closid and rmid before
> they are updated.
>
> With the new way to update closid and rmid, the issues related to
> the callbacks will be fixed as well.
>
> We will release the new patches soon.
>
> Thanks.

Sounds good to me. I didn't get any response on the previous email
therefore I code this up.

Shakeel