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SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip 13/32] sched: Trivial forced-newidle balancer
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:19:43PM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>
> When a sibling is forced-idle to match the core-cookie; search for
> matching tasks to fill the core.
>
> rcu_read_unlock() can incur an infrequent deadlock in
> sched_core_balance(). Fix this by using the RCU-sched flavor instead.
>
...
> +
> + if (p->core_occupation > dst->idle->core_occupation)
> + goto next;
> +

I am unable to understand this check, a comment or clarification in the
changelog will help. I presume we are looking at either one or two cpus
to define the core_occupation and we expect to match it against the
destination CPU.

Balbir Singh.

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