Re: [PATCH] sched: Provide a pointer to the valid CPU mask

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2019-04-23 16:26:36 [+0200], To linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In commit 4b53a3412d66 ("sched/core: Remove the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed()
> wrapper") the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper was removed. There was not
> much difference in !RT but in RT we used this to implement
> migrate_disable(). Within a migrate_disable() section the CPU mask is
> restricted to single CPU while the "normal" CPU mask remains untouched.
> 
> As an alternative implementation Ingo suggested to use
> 	struct task_struct {
> 		const cpumask_t		*cpus_ptr;
> 		cpumask_t		cpus_mask;
>         };
> with
> 	t->cpus_allowed_ptr = &t->cpus_allowed;
> 
> In -RT we then can switch the cpus_ptr to
> 	t->cpus_allowed_ptr = &cpumask_of(task_cpu(p));
> 
> in a migration disabled region. The rules are simple:
> - Code that 'uses' ->cpus_allowed would use the pointer.
> - Code that 'modifies' ->cpus_allowed would use the direct mask.
> 
> I proposed this patch as a series earlier and it was shutdown due to the
> migrate_disable() bits. It has been said that migrate_disable() should
> only be used with RT and thus not introduced without it.
> I hereby propose only the mask CPU-bits.
> 
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

a gentle ping.

Sebastian