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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: commit e9e9250b: sync wakeup bustage when waker is an RT task
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 15:56:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275314209.17599.7.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275306978.27810.22357.camel@twins>

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 13:56 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 09:21 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > sched: RT waker sync wakeup bugfix
> > 
> > An RT waker's weight is not on the runqueue, but we try to subrtact it anyway
> > in the sync wakeup case,  sending this_load negative.  This leads to affine
> > wakeup failure in cases where it should succeed.  This was found while testing
> > an PREEMPT_RT kernel with lmbench's lat_udp.  In a PREEMPT_RT kernel, softirq
> > threads act as a ~proxy for the !RT buddy.  Approximate !PREEMPT_RT sync wakeup
> > behavior by looking at the buddy instead, and subtracting the maximum task weight
> > that will not send this_load negative. 
> 
> 
> Does the below work?

Had to make a dinky adjustment for x86-tip-rt33, but yeah, the horrid
latencies are gone.  (hm, skinnier than expected too)

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-31 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-15 11:57 commit e9e9250b: sync wakeup bustage when waker is an RT task Mike Galbraith
2010-05-15 12:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-15 17:07   ` Mike Galbraith
2010-05-15 17:32     ` Mike Galbraith
2010-05-16  7:21     ` Mike Galbraith
2010-05-17  4:38       ` Mike Galbraith
2010-05-17  8:49         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-17  8:52           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-17  9:04           ` Mike Galbraith
2010-05-31 11:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-31 13:56         ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2010-05-31 14:28           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-31 18:03             ` Mike Galbraith
2010-06-01  6:40               ` Mike Galbraith
2010-06-01  9:12             ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Fix wake_affine() vs RT tasks tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

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