Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH v3] sched: automated per tty task groups

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 09:01:24 EST


On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 14:25 -0700, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > + if (p->flags & PF_EXITING)
> > > + return false;
> >
> > Hmm, why? Perhaps PF_EXITING was needed in the previous version to
> > avoid the race with release_task(). But now it is always safe to
> > use signal->autogroup.
>
> That came into existence when I stress tested previous version in
> PREEMPT_RT (boom). I see no good reason to bother an exiting task
> though, so would prefer to leave it as is.

PREEMPT_RT has a slightly different exit path IIRC. If that was the only
thing you saw it explode on we could leave the check out for now and
revisit it in the -rt patches when and if it pops up. Hmm?
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