From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758817Ab2FUIek (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:34:40 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:45680 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758798Ab2FUIei convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:34:38 -0400 Message-ID: <1340267659.21745.157.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sched: balance_cpu to consider other cpus in its group as target of (pinned) task From: Peter Zijlstra To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri Cc: Prashanth Nageshappa , mingo@kernel.org, LKML , roland@kernel.org, efault@gmx.de, Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:34:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20120621034059.GA9748@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <4FE06CDB.2060605@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1340213901.21745.122.camel@twins> <20120621034059.GA9748@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 09:10 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Hmm ..I can see loop_break being incremented here: > > /* take a breather every nr_migrate tasks */ > if (env->loop > env->loop_break) { > env->loop_break += sched_nr_migrate_break; > env->flags |= LBF_NEED_BREAK; > goto out; > } > > As a result, when we redo with a different src_cpu, both loop and > loop_break could be at non-default values. Am I missing something here? D'0h right you are.. /me quickly edits patch again. I thought I removed all that, guess I didn't.