Re: [PATCH] sched/deadline: No need to check NULL later_mask

From: Xunlei Pang
Date: Wed Apr 06 2016 - 09:08:17 EST


On 2016/04/06 at 17:30, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 06:14:28PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>> Your proposal is very nice!
>>
>> At the sched_init() stage we only have one (to be "idle") task and with irq disabled,
>> no scheduling will happen, and the cpu_possible_mask was already initiated, so it's
>> safe to simply move them there.
>>
>> Also, how about rt&deadline sharing a percpu mask? Because only one of them can
>> use the mask at a moment, operations are always under some spin_lock_irqsave().
>>
>> I made a new patch below, slightly tested by running tens of rt&dl tasks for a while,
>> are you fine with it?
> Yep, looks fine. Please submit as a proper patch.

Will do, thanks!

Regards,
Xunlei

>
> Thanks!