Manfred,
Calling this a BUG is misleading. It is ok to be occasionally wrong
regarding the preemption priority as long as RT tasks are not involved.
This is due to the fact that PROC_CHANGE_PENALTIES are used, which already
provide for some priority inversion.
Hubertus Franke
email: frankeh@us.ibm.com
(w) 914-945-2003 (fax) 914-945-4425 TL: 862-2003
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>@vger.kernel.org on 06/27/2001
06:41:29 PM
Sent by: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
To: Mike Kravetz <mkravetz@sequent.com>
cc: Scott Long <scott@swiftview.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wake_up vs. wake_up_sync
Mike Kravetz wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:22:19PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > > Why would you want to prevent
> > > reschedule_idle()?
> > >
> > If one process runs, wakes up another process and _knows_ that it's
> > going to sleep immediately after the wake_up it doesn't need the
> > reschedule_idle: the current cpu will be idle soon, the scheduler
> > doesn't need to find another cpu for the woken up thread.
>
> I'm curious. How does the caller of wake_up_sync know that the
> current cpu will soon be idle. Does it assume that there are no
> other tasks on the runqueue waiting for a CPU? If there are other
> tasks on the runqueue, isn't it possible that another task has a
> higher goodness value than the task being awakened. In such a case,
> isn't is possible that the awakened task could sit on the runqueue
> (waiting for a CPU) while tasks with a lower goodness value are
> allowed to run?
>
I found one combination where that could happen:
process.thread
A.1: highest priority, runs on cpu0
B.1: lowest priority, runs on cpu1
A.2: another thread of process A, priority
PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY+PRIORITY(B.1)+1, sleeping.
B.2: same priority as A.2, sleeping, same process as B.1
A.1:
{
wake_up("A.2");
/* nothing happens: preemption_goodness is 0 since B.1 has both
PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY and the += 1 from 'same mm'
*/
wake_up_sync("B.2");
schedule();
/* schedule selects A.2 instead of B.2 due to the += 1 from 'same mm'.
BUG: B.2 should replace B.1 on cpu1. The preemption_goodness is 1.
*/
IMHO obscure and very rare.
But I just found a bigger problem:
If wake_up_sync wakes up more than 1 process then cpus could remain in
cpu_idle() although processes are on the runqueue without cpus.
--
Manfred
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