From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933675AbZKXRfm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:35:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933596AbZKXRfm (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:35:42 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:53077 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933582AbZKXRfl (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:35:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix b5d9d734 blunder in task_new_fair() From: Peter Zijlstra To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML In-Reply-To: <1259082449.15249.90.camel@marge.simson.net> References: <1258891664.14325.30.camel@marge.simson.net> <1259070683.4531.1476.camel@laptop> <1259082449.15249.90.camel@marge.simson.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:35:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1259084140.4531.1710.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 18:07 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > if (p->sched_class->task_new) { > > /* can detect migration through: task_cpu(p) != smp_processor_id() */ > > What if the parent was migrated before we got here? Well, the only case it really matters for is the child_runs_first crap, which is basically broken on SMP anyway, so I don't think we care too much if we race here. Unless I missed some detail that is ;-)