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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: fix a logical error in select_task_rq_fair
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:17:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343290631.26034.86.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343280446-24019-2-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com>

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:27 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> If find_idlest_cpu() return '-1', and sd->child is NULL. The function
> select_task_rq_fair will return -1. That is not the function's purpose.

But find_idlest_cpu() will only return -1 if the group mask is fully
excluded by the cpus_allowed mask, right?

In that case aren't we covering up a bug in find_idlest_group(), it
appears to have returned a group that isn't eligible to be idlest.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-26  5:27 [PATCH 1/2] sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE in select_task_rq_fair and code clean up Alex Shi
2012-07-26  5:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] sched: fix a logical error in select_task_rq_fair Alex Shi
2012-07-26  8:17   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-07-26  9:11     ` Alex Shi
2012-07-27  1:50       ` Alex Shi
2012-07-26  9:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE in select_task_rq_fair and code clean up Mike Galbraith
2012-07-26  9:42   ` Alex Shi
2012-07-27  1:47   ` Alex Shi
2012-07-27  3:22     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-07-27  8:32     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-27 14:42       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-13 12:33       ` Alex Shi
2012-08-13 17:14         ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Alex Shi

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