On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:25 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The first two patches are from Mike and Steven on LKML, which the rest of my
> series is dependent on. Patch #4 is a resend from earlier.
>
> Series Summary:
>
> 1) Send IPI on overload regardless of whether prev is an RT task
> 2) Set the NEEDS_RESCHED flag on reception of RESCHED_IPI
> 3) Fix a mistargeted IPI on overload
> 4) Track which CPUS are in overload for efficiency
> 5) Track which CPUs are eligible for rebalancing for efficiency
>
> These have been built and boot-tested on a 4-core Intel system.
Ok, I'm not liking these.
I really hate setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED from the IPI handler. Also, I
don't see how doing a resched pulls tasks to begin with.
How about keeping a per rq variable that indicates the highest priority
of runnable tasks. And on forced preemption look for a target rq to send
your last highest task to.
There is no need to broadcast rebalance, that will only serialise on the
local rq lock again. So pick a target rq, and stick with that.
Also, I think you meant to use cpus_and() with the rto and allowed
masks.
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