Re: [PATCH?] Livelock in pick_next_task_fair() / idle_balance()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 07:25:11AM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 40a7fcb..f7cc1ef 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5898,6 +5898,10 @@ static int detach_tasks(struct lb_env *env)
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	while (!list_empty(tasks)) {
> +
> +		if (env->idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && env->src_rq->nr_running <= 1)

Should we make that ->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE ?

> +			break;
> +
>  		p = list_first_entry(tasks, struct task_struct, se.group_node);
>  
>  		env->loop++;
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