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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Avi Kiviti <avi@redhat.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:53:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294167213.9334.38.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294164289.2016.186.camel@laptop>

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 19:04 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > +		p_cfs_rq = cfs_rq_of(pse);
> > +		yield = 1;
> > +	}
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +	if (yield)
> > +		clear_buddies(cfs_rq, se);
> > +	else if (preempt)
> > +		clear_buddies(p_cfs_rq, curr);
> > +
> > +	/* Tell the scheduler that we'd really like pse to run next. */
> > +	p_cfs_rq->next = pse;
> > +
> > +	if (!yield && preempt)
> > +		resched_task(task_of(p_cfs_rq->curr));
> 
> I don't get this.. Why would you resched the remote cpu, surely you
> didn't just pull its current task over..

:) hope not.   Caller bails on task_running(p_rq, p).  wants a comment
too I suppose.

Target doesn't live here, preempt is still set/allowed, so we want the
remote cpu to schedule.

	-Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-03 21:26 [RFC -v3 PATCH 0/3] directed yield for Pause Loop Exiting Rik van Riel
2011-01-03 21:27 ` [RFC -v3 PATCH 1/3] kvm: keep track of which task is running a KVM vcpu Rik van Riel
2011-01-03 21:29 ` [RFC -v3 PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function Rik van Riel
2011-01-04  1:51   ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-04  6:14   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-01-04 12:03     ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-05  2:39       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-01-05  8:35         ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-05  8:40           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-01-05  9:08             ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-05  9:30               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-01-05  9:34                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-05 10:24             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 10:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 17:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05  3:17       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-01-04 14:28   ` Hillf Danton
2011-01-04 16:41   ` Hillf Danton
2011-01-04 16:44     ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-04 16:51       ` Hillf Danton
2011-01-04 16:54         ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-04 17:02           ` Hillf Danton
2011-01-04 17:08         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 17:12           ` Hillf Danton
2011-01-04 17:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 17:53           ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-04 18:05             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 18:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 18:53     ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2011-01-05 16:57     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-05 17:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 17:23         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-07  5:29         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-13  3:02           ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-13  3:26             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-13  5:08               ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-06 14:33       ` Hillf Danton
2011-01-05 17:10     ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-05 17:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 17:19         ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-05 17:28           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 17:35             ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-05 17:39               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-06  3:49                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-03 21:30 ` [RFC -v3 PATCH 3/3] Subject: kvm: use yield_to instead of sleep in kvm_vcpu_on_spin Rik van Riel
2011-01-04  6:42 ` [RFC -v3 PATCH 0/3] directed yield for Pause Loop Exiting Mike Galbraith
2011-01-04  9:09   ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-04 10:32     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-04 10:35       ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-04  9:14 ` Avi Kivity
2011-01-04 10:26   ` Mike Galbraith
2011-01-04 17:20     ` Peter Zijlstra

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