Re: [patch 01/15] sched: (fixlet) dont update shares twice on on_rqparent

From: Hidetoshi Seto
Date: Tue May 10 2011 - 03:15:16 EST


(2011/05/03 18:28), Paul Turner wrote:
> In dequeue_task_fair() we bail on dequeue when we encounter a parenting entity
> with additional weight. However, we perform a double shares update on this
> entity since we continue the shares update traversal from that point, despite
> dequeue_entity() having already updated its queuing cfs_rq.
>
> Avoid this by starting from the parent when we resume.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched_fair.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: tip/kernel/sched_fair.c
> ===================================================================
> --- tip.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
> +++ tip/kernel/sched_fair.c
> @@ -1355,8 +1355,10 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq
> dequeue_entity(cfs_rq, se, flags);
>
> /* Don't dequeue parent if it has other entities besides us */
> - if (cfs_rq->load.weight)
> + if (cfs_rq->load.weight) {
> + se = parent_entity(se);
> break;
> + }
> flags |= DEQUEUE_SLEEP;
> }
>

Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This small fixlet can stand alone.
Peter, how about getting this into git tree first?


Thanks,
H.Seto

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