Re: [RFC v2 3/7] Improve the tracking of active utilisation

[luca abeni]

Hi Peter,

On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:42:42 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 05:12:29PM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote:
> > @@ -526,7 +575,18 @@ static void update_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
> >  	struct dl_rq *dl_rq = dl_rq_of_se(dl_se);
> >  	struct rq *rq = rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq);
> >  
> > -	add_running_bw(dl_se, dl_rq);
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If the "inactive timer" is still active, stop it and leave
> > +	 * the active utilisation unchanged.
> > +	 * Otherwise, increase the active utilisation.
> > +	 * If the timer cannot be cancelled, inactive_task_timer() will
> > +	 * find the task state as TASK_RUNNING, and will do nothing, so
> > +	 * we are still safe.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (hrtimer_active(&dl_se->inactive_timer))
> > +		hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&dl_se->inactive_timer);
> 
> _try_, what happens if that fails?

I think inactive_task_timer() will run, but will see p->state == TASK_RUNNING
and will return immediately.

I think I have actually seen this happening during my tests, because adding
the "if (p->state == TASK_RUNNING)" in inactive_task_timer() fixed some issues
that I was seeing.



				Thanks,
					Luca