Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/deadline: Replenishment timer should fire in the next period

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Feb 13 2017 - 06:10:34 EST


On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 08:12:37AM +0100, luca abeni wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:48:10 +0100
> Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...]
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> > index 70ef2b1..3c94d85 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> > @@ -505,10 +505,15 @@ static void update_dl_entity(struct
> > sched_dl_entity *dl_se, }
> > }
> >
> > +static inline u64 dl_next_period(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
> > +{
> > + return dl_se->deadline - dl_se->dl_deadline +
> > dl_se->dl_period; +}
> > +
> > /*
> > * If the entity depleted all its runtime, and if we want it to sleep
> > * while waiting for some new execution time to become available, we
> > - * set the bandwidth enforcement timer to the replenishment instant
> > + * set the bandwidth replenishment timer to the replenishment instant
> > * and try to activate it.
> > *
> > * Notice that it is important for the caller to know if the timer
> > @@ -530,7 +535,7 @@ static int start_dl_timer(struct task_struct *p)
> > * that it is actually coming from rq->clock and not from
> > * hrtimer's time base reading.
> > */
> > - act = ns_to_ktime(dl_se->deadline);
> > + act = ns_to_ktime(dl_next_period(dl_se));
>
> Looks like there is a real bug in the code, and your fix looks correct
> to me. I think it should be committed.
>

I've interpreted this as:

Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Holler if you disagree.