Re: [RFC v3 1/6] Track the active utilisation

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Nov 18 2016 - 09:55:10 EST


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:56:35PM +0000, Juri Lelli wrote:
> Mmm. You explicitly check that TASK_ON_RQ_MIGRATING or DEQUEUE_SLEEP
> (which btw can be actually put together with an or condition), so I
> don't think that any of those turn out to be true when the task dies.
> Also, AFAIU, do_exit() works on current and the TASK_DEAD case is
> handled in finish_task_switch(), so I don't think we are taking care of
> the "task is dying" condition.
>
> Peter, does what I'm saying make any sense? :)

do_task_dead():
__set_current_state(TASK_DEAD);
schedule():
if (prev->state)
deactivate_task(DEQUEUE_SLEEP);