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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/7] sched: Account rr and fifo tasks separately
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:53:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 03:22:06PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > In order to evaluate tick dependency, we need to account SCHED_RR and
> > SCHED_FIFO tasks separately as those policies don't have the same
> > preemption requirements.
> >
> > We still keep rt_nr_running as a cache to avoid additions between nr_rr
> > and nr_fifo all over the place.
>
> In which case you only need one of nr_fifo/nr_rr. Less accounting is
> better.
>
> Pick the one you need for the nohz_full condition, and leave the other.
> A quick look at sched_can_stop_tick() seems to suggest nr_rr is the
> interesting one. nr_rr < 2 should allow stopping the tick.

Sounds pretty good! I'm going to do that!

Thanks!


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