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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix set_task_cpu() and provide an unlocked runqueue variant
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:09:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259244563.31676.53.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259230578.15079.12.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 11:16 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > min_vruntime should only ever be poked at when holding the respective
> > rq->lock, even with a barrier a 64bit read on a 32bit machine can go all
> > funny.
> 
> Yeah, but we're looking at an unlocked runqueue.  But never mind...

The patch is also poking at rq->clock without rq->lock held... not very
nice.

Gah, I hate that we're doing migration things without holding both rq's,
this is making live so very interesting ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-22 12:09 [patch] sched: fix set_task_cpu() and provide an unlocked runqueue variant Mike Galbraith
2009-11-25 18:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-26  1:01   ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-26  1:31     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-26  9:35       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-26 10:16         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-26 14:09           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-11-26 14:21             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-26 15:32               ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-26 14:58             ` Mike Galbraith

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