Re: [RFC][PATCH 08/17] sched: Drop the rq argument to sched_class::select_task_rq()

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

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:27 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ah, sorry for the confusion, I only meant sched_exec() case.
> > set_cpus_allowed_ptr() does need need_migrate_task(), of course.
> >
> >
> > As for set_cpus_allowed_ptr()->need_migrate_task() path, I have another
> > question,
> >
> >        static bool need_migrate_task(struct task_struct *p)
> >        {
> >                /*
> >                 * If the task is not on a runqueue (and not running), then
> >                 * the next wake-up will properly place the task.
> >                 */
> >                smp_rmb(); /* finish_lock_switch() */
> >                return p->on_rq || p->on_cpu;
> >        }
> >
> > I don't understand this smp_rmb(). Yes, finish_lock_switch() does
> > wmb() before it clears ->on_cpu, but how these 2 barriers can pair?
> >
> > In fact, I am completely confused. I do not understand why do we
> > check task_running() at all. If we see on_rq == 0 && on_cpu == 1,
> > then this task is going to clear its on_cpu soon, once it finishes
> > context_switch().
> >
> > Probably, this check was needed before, try_to_wake_up() could
> > activate the task_running() task without migrating. But, at first
> > glance, this is no longer possible after this series?
> 
> Yeah, task_running() is not needed after patch 13 which
> may be the suitable place to poke :)

That and patch 6, which removes the false negatives from ->on_rq.