Re: [RFC PATCH V3 4/6] sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers

From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Date: Tue Jul 04 2023 - 11:53:37 EST



Back from EOSS...

On 6/23/23 18:47, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 08/06/23 17:58, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
>> @@ -2033,9 +2147,20 @@ static struct task_struct *pick_next_task_dl(struct rq *rq)
>> struct task_struct *p;
>>
>> p = pick_task_dl(rq);
>> - if (p)
>> + if (!p)
>> + return p;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * XXX: re-check !dl_server, changed from v2 because of
>> + * pick_next_task_dl change
>> + */
>> + if (!dl_server(&p->dl))
>> set_next_task_dl(rq, p, true);
>>
>
> Should this be
>
> if (!p->server)
>
> instead? AFAICT dl_server(&p->dl) can never be true since there's no
> pi_se-like link to the server via the dl_se, only via the task_struct, and
> the server pick cannot return the server itself (as it's a pure sched_entity).

makes sense... I will check that in the v4.

>
>> + /* XXX not quite right */
>> + if (hrtick_enabled(rq))
>> + start_hrtick_dl(rq, &p->dl);
>> +
>
> IIUC that got hauled out of set_next_task_dl() to cover the case where we
> pick the server (+ the server pick) and want to more thoroughly enforce the
> server's bandwidth. If so, what's the issue with starting the hrtick here?

I think that the commend was added more as a check if it is correct... it seems it is.

Thanks Vale!
-- Daniel

>
>> return p;
>> }
>>
>