Re: Tasks schedule/migration issue with CPU hotplug?

[Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 03:28:01PM +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 02:47:08PM +0800, TAO HU wrote:
> > Resend with linux-kernel mail list included.
> 
> Hmm, could you give a try with commit da7a735e?
> 
> Thanks,
> Yong
> 
> ---
> commit da7a735e51f9622eb3e1672594d4a41da01d7e4f
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date:   Mon Jan 17 17:03:27 2011 +0100
> 
>     sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
>     
>     When a task is taken out of the fair class we must ensure the vruntime
>     is properly normalized because when we put it back in it will assume
>     to be normalized.
>     
>     The case that goes wrong is when changing away from the fair class
>     while sleeping. Sleeping tasks have non-normalized vruntime in order
>     to make sleeper-fairness work. So treat the switch away from fair as a
>     wakeup and preserve the relative vruntime.
>     
>     Also update sysrq-n to call the ->switch_{to,from} methods.
>     
>     Reported-by: Onkalo Samu <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
>     LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
>     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:22 PM, TAO HU <tghk48@motorola.com> wrote:
> > > <4>[ 6950.136230] cfs_rq[0]:/
> > > <4>[ 6950.136230] ? .exec_clock ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 6520265.283900
> > > <4>[ 6950.136260] ? .MIN_vruntime ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 2223057.428522
> > > <4>[ 6950.136260] ? .min_vruntime ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 2223057.428522
> > > <4>[ 6950.136291] ? .max_vruntime ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 2223114.709956
> > > <4>[ 6950.136291] ? .spread ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 57.281434
> > > <4>[ 6950.136291] ? .spread0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? : 0.000000
> > > <4>[ 6950.136322] ? .nr_running ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 212
> > > <4>[ 6950.136322] ? .load ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 217650
> > > <4>[ 6950.136352] ? .nr_spread_over ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 125034
> > > <4>[ 6950.136352] ? .shares ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?: 0
> > > <4>[ 6950.136352]
> > > <4>[ 6950.136566] runnable tasks:
> > > <4>[ 6950.136566] ? ? ? ? ? ? task ? PID ? ? ? ? tree-key ?switches
> > > prio ? ? exec-runtime ? ? ? ? sum-exec ? ? ? ?sum-sleep
> > > <4>[ 6950.136596]
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > <4>[ 6950.136627] ? ? ?omap2_mcspi ? ?21 ? 2223062.886210 ?29451523

The tree-key(2223062.886210) almost equals to cfs_rq.min_vruntime,
so maybe you hit the bug which is cured by the mentioned commit.

Thanks,
Yong