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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	ktkhai@parallels.com
Subject: Re: sched_setscheduler() vs idle_balance() race
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 10:24:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150601082423.GS19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433054344.6545.20.camel@gmail.com>

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 08:39:04AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> I don't see why we can't just say no in can_migrate_task() if ->pi_lock
> is held.

I suppose we could do that; what I really want to avoid is also
requiring pi_lock for scheduling.

The down-side of looking at pi_lock for migration is that there is no
common point for migrating tasks, its all inside the classes, so we'd
get to sprinkle it all over the place.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-01  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-28  7:43 sched_setscheduler() vs idle_balance() race Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 11:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-28 12:04   ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 12:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-28 12:32       ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 13:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-28 14:54   ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 15:24     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-29 18:30       ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-29 18:48         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-01  8:14           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-01  8:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-01 10:00           ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 16:59   ` Kirill Tkhai
2015-05-30 13:08   ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-31  6:39     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-01  8:24       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-06-01  8:19     ` Peter Zijlstra

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