Re: [RFC PATCH 05/11] sched: Split scheduler execution context

From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Wed Oct 19 2022 - 13:17:43 EST


On 03/10/22 21:44, Connor O'Brien wrote:
> @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ static u64 grub_reclaim(u64 delta, struct rq *rq, struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
> */
> static void update_curr_dl(struct rq *rq)
> {
> - struct task_struct *curr = rq->curr;
> + struct task_struct *curr = rq->proxy;

I found a note pointing out that Juri has a patch to unify the
update_curr*() functions as part of the deadline servers thing; I think it
could be picked as a standalone to at least unify the curr = rq->proxy
trickery - this will also (hopefully) remove redundancy for whatever we do
to expose sane runtime values to userspace.

Last iteration I could find is:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200807095051.385985-2-juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx/