Re: Regression with sched yield - 2.6.25-rc2-mm1

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:18 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:

> > Humm, the check that should have avoided that is:
> > 
> >         /*
> >          * Are we the only task in the tree?
> >          */
> >         if (unlikely(rq->load.weight == curr->se.load.weight))
> >                 return;
> > 
> > 
> > But I guess that overlooks rt tasks, they also increase the load.
> > So I guess something like this ought to fix it..
> > 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I don't remember any real time tasks running on the system, so I would be
> surprised if that is indeed the case.

Various kthreads have rt prio. Notably the load_balancer_monitor().

>  Having said that, rightmost was indeed
> NULL, so I need to figure out why it was. The other question is why would a real
> time task be found by sched_yield_fair? 

Because a rt task contributes weight and would make the test above fail
because rt->load would be larger than expected.

> > diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
> > index b9ade89..83eb30c 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
> > @@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ static void yield_task_fair(struct rq *rq)
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Already in the rightmost position?
> >  	 */
> > -	if (unlikely(rightmost->vruntime < se->vruntime))
> > +	if (unlikely(!rightmost || rightmost->vruntime < se->vruntime))
> >  		return;
> > 
> >  	/*
> >