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SubjectRe: Why is cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() necessary?
Hi Tejun,

On 11/26, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> I'm wondering why cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() is necessary. This
> is called from, e.g., try_to_wake_up()->select_task_rq() when none of
> the cpus in ->cpus_allowed is useable. The cpuset callback invokes
> do_set_cpus_allowed() w/ the cpuset's cpus_allowed. This was added by
> the following commit,
>
> commit 9084bb8246ea935b98320554229e2f371f7f52fa
> Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon Mar 15 10:10:27 2010 +0100
>
>
> sched: Make select_fallback_rq() cpuset friendly
>
> Introduce cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() helper to fix the cpuset problems
> with select_fallback_rq(). It can be called from any context and can't use
> any cpuset locks including task_lock(). It is called when the task doesn't
> have online cpus in ->cpus_allowed but ttwu/etc must be able to find a
> suitable cpu.
> ....
>
> The problem is, nothing's explaining what "the cpuset problems with
> select_fallback_rq()" are.

Cough. You are right, the changelog is confusing and I no can not
understand it too.

> Oleg, do you remember? Why do we need
> this?

No, I forgot. And this code was changed after that, the fat comment in
cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() tried to explain the code below which
was removed.



I am starting to recall what this patch tried to do after I looked into
git history. This patch was the last (probably) change in series.

Please look at
897f0b3c3ff40b443c84e271bef19bd6ae885195
sched: Kill the broken and deadlockable cpuset_lock/cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked code

In particular it removes cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() from
select_fallback_rq() because this was very wrong. IOW, this patch
simply removes the code which didn't really work

And after some other changes, this comment tried to add the supposed
behaviour back: we shouldn't simply use cpu_possible_mask, we should
consult cpuset.

Oleg.



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