From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752394Ab0CYQMP (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:12:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30802 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752098Ab0CYQMO (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:12:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:10:08 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , Ben Blum , Jiri Slaby , Lai Jiangshan , Li Zefan , Miao Xie , Paul Menage , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] sched/cpusets fixes, more changes are needed Message-ID: <20100325161008.GA11724@redhat.com> References: <20100315090958.GA9116@redhat.com> <1269452296.5109.508.camel@twins> <20100324180912.GA21774@redhat.com> <1269512531.12097.67.camel@laptop> <20100325154616.GA9773@redhat.com> <20100325160243.GA11517@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100325160243.GA11517@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Argh, sorry for noise... On 03/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 03/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > I like the current idea to call select_task_rq() without rq->lock, but > > of course this is up to you. > > > > However, once again, can't we make a simpler patch? > > > > - remove PF_STARTING from task_waking() > > > > - change sched_fork() to set RUNNING instead of WAKING When I reread this thread, suddenly finally I noticed you mentioned _twice_ your patch does this too ;) Not to mention the patch itself which I misread. Sorry. > IOW, something like the (unchecked, uncompiled) patch below. Still, what do you think? Oleg.