Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH 1 of 3] Move locking into pluggable schedulers.

[Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>]

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On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 16:24 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >  struct csched_private {
> > +    /* lock for the whole pluggable scheduler, nests inside cpupool_lock */
> >      spinlock_t lock;
> >      struct list_head active_sdom;
> >      uint32_t ncpus;
> 
> Given that every scheduler plugin is going to need this lock perhaps it
> could be provided globally (but still have the responsibility for using
> it fall on the plugin)?
> 
Makes sense to me, and it should be something pretty easy to do, if you
were thinking of just moving the lock to general code.
I'm saying this because both credit and credit2 has much more payload in
their `struct csched_private', and if we also want to get rid of the
struct for them as well, that would be a different story! :-)

> I was mainly thinking of the sedf case where you add and maintain the
> whole structure for just that lock. Perhaps you have future plans which
> involve having to do that anyway in which case maybe my suggestion
> doesn't make sense.
>
I know and I agree, that 1-field-struct is just as ugly as hell! Reason
why I went for it are homogeneity with the current code of all the
schedulers, and yes, also, what you're saying above, i.e., it might turn
useful in future to have some scheduler-wide repository in sedf as it is
now for credit*. But no, I don't have _specific_ plans yet, so your
comment do make sense.

Anyway, even if we'd stay with what's in this patch, I think this at
least need some commenting...

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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Dario Faggioli, http://retis.sssup.it/people/faggioli
Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
PhD Candidate, ReTiS Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (Italy)


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