Re: [PATCH 3/4] scheduler: replace migration_thread with cpuhog

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

As I said, personally I like these changes very much. Even if I can't ack them
I'd like to add my vote.

On 03/17, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
>  int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *new_mask)
>  {
> ...
> +	if (migrate_task(p, dest_cpu)) {
> +		struct migration_arg arg = { p, dest_cpu };
>  		/* Need help from migration thread: drop lock and wait. */
> -		struct task_struct *mt = rq->migration_thread;
> -
> -		get_task_struct(mt);
>  		task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
> -		wake_up_process(rq->migration_thread);
> -		put_task_struct(mt);
> -		wait_for_completion(&req.done);
> +		hog_one_cpu(cpu_of(rq), migration_hog, &arg);

Afaics, this is the only change which can make a difference. If we race with
cpu_down(), set_cpus_allowed_ptr() can return before the task was actually
moved to another CPU. But this seems harmless to me.

Oleg.