Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2013 02:55:12 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove broken check for skip clock update | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> |
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2013/1/8 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>: > On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 02:07 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >> rq->skip_clock_update shouldn't be negative. Thus the check >> in put_prev_task() is useless. >> >> It was probably intended to do the following check: >> >> if (prev->on_rq && !rq->skip_clock_update) >> >> We only want to update the clock if the current task is >> not voluntarily sleeping: otherwise deactivate_task() >> already did the rq clock update in schedule(). But we want >> to ignore that update if a ttwu did it for us, in which case >> rq->skip_clock_update is 1. >> >> But update_rq_clock() already takes care of that so we >> can just remove the broken condition. > > kernel/sched/rt.c: > > /* > * Force a clock update if the CPU was idle, > * lest wakeup -> unthrottle time accumulate. > */ > if (rt_rq->rt_nr_running && rq->curr == rq->idle) > rq->skip_clock_update = -1;
Grr, I knew I was missing something!
Ok let's drop that patch then.
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