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SubjectRe: [RFC GIT PULL] sched; Fix a few missing rq clock updates
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:57:33PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 01:50:57AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > So I revisited the rq clock series I had for dynticks. The patches
> > actually were about upstream issues so I refactored the fixes
> > under that angle and gave up with the wrong asumption that rq
> > clock relies on the tick for its updates.
> >
> > Patches 1-4 fix some missing updates. Additionally I removed
> > 2 of these updates from the previous set:
> >
> > * No need to update the rq clock on idle_balance() because it should
> > follow a call to deactivate_task() (unless TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set
> > on idle without new task on the runqueue, not sure we want to cover that).
> >
> > * No need to update for try_to_wake_up_local() -> ttwu_do_wakeup() -> check_preempt_curr()
> > as it's following deactivate_task().
> >
> > Patch 5 brings accessors that will be necessary to settle an rq clock
> > debugging engine. What remains is to tag scheduler's entry/exit points
> > and report missing or redundant update_rq_clock() before calls to
> > rq_clock() and rq_clock_task().
>
> Just noticed this queue was still sitting in the INBOX, I took it and will
> soon-ish hand to Ingo.

Thanks a lot!


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