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

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 09:20:17 EST


On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, I'm going to whack it. (and add your lockdep thingy)

-Mike


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