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From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: sched: avoid races on time values read from NOW()
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:12:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1464091921.21930.70.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5744443E02000078000EE323@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>


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On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 04:08 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While backporting this for 4.6 (which required substantial
> adjustment to the sched_rt.c part) 
>
Yep, I figure it did. :-(

It sounds like you've pretty much done with it, but if not, and if you
want me or Meng to provide the backport, just ask!

> I noticed that there's another
> of the cases mentioned in the description in rt_vcpu_insert(). The
> commit message doesn't mention why this was left unchanged, so
> was not fixing this perhaps just an oversight?
> 
It is indeed. I'll send a patch.

Sorry,
Dario
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-24 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-19  8:11 [PATCH for 4.7] xen: sched: avoid races on time values read from NOW() Dario Faggioli
2016-05-19  8:11 ` [PATCH] " Dario Faggioli
2016-05-19  9:26   ` George Dunlap
2016-05-19 11:01   ` Wei Liu
2016-05-19 15:22   ` Meng Xu
2016-05-24 10:08   ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-24 12:12     ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2016-05-19 15:28 ` [PATCH for 4.7] " Meng Xu

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