From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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 17:11:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <501109DD.7020501@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343290631.26034.86.camel@twins>
On 07/26/2012 04:17 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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?
Yes.
>
> 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.
If it is possible happening in sched_domain rebuilding?
I didn't meet this bug. Just guess.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-26 9:11 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
2012-07-26 9:11 ` Alex Shi [this message]
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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