Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: fix unthrottle_cfs_rq for leaf_cfs_rq list

From: Tao Zhou
Date: Wed Nov 18 2020 - 18:52:19 EST


On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 07:56:38PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> Hi Vincent (and all CCed), I'm sorry to ping about such "old" patch, but
> we experienced a similar condition to what this patch addresses; it's an
> older kernel (4.15.x) but when suggesting the users to move to an
> updated 5.4.x kernel, we noticed that this patch is not there, although
> similar ones are (like [0] and [1]).
>
> So, I'd like to ask if there's any particular reason to not backport
> this fix to stable kernels, specially the longterm 5.4. The main reason
> behind the question is that the code is very complex for non-experienced
> scheduler developers, and I'm afraid in suggesting such backport to 5.4
> and introduce complex-to-debug issues.
>
> Let me know your thoughts Vincent (and all CCed), thanks in advance.
> Cheers,
>
>
> Guilherme
>
>
> P.S. For those that deleted this thread from the email client, here's a
> link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200513135528.4742-1-vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
>
> [0]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fe61468b2cb
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200506141821.GA9773@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> <- great thread BTW!

'sched/fair: Fix unthrottle_cfs_rq() for leaf_cfs_rq list" failed to apply to
5.4-stable tree'

You could check above. But I do not have the link about this. Can't search it
on LKML web: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/

BTW: 'ouwen210@xxxxxxxxxxx' and 'zohooouoto@xxxxxxxxxxx' all is myself.

Sorry for the confusing..

Thanks.