Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/3] rt: PI-workqueue support

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

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On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/workqueue.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ struct cpu_workqueue_struct {
>
>  	spinlock_t lock;
>
> -	struct list_head worklist;
> +	struct plist_head worklist;
>  	wait_queue_head_t more_work;
>  	struct work_struct *current_work;
>
> @@ -127,16 +127,19 @@ struct cpu_workqueue_struct *get_wq_data
>  static void insert_work(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq,
>  				struct work_struct *work, int tail)
>  {
> +	int prio = current->normal_prio;
> +

I'm curious to why you use normal_prio here? If the task has been boosted
by some other PI method, and this task is about to sleep, why not use the
actualy current->prio?

-- Steve


>  	set_wq_data(work, cwq);
>  	/*
>  	 * Ensure that we get the right work->data if we see the
>  	 * result of list_add() below, see try_to_grab_pending().
>  	 */
>  	smp_wmb();
> -	if (tail)
> -		list_add_tail(&work->entry, &cwq->worklist);
> -	else
> -		list_add(&work->entry, &cwq->worklist);
> +	plist_node_init(&work->entry, prio);
> +	plist_add(&work->entry, &cwq->worklist);
> +
> +	if (prio < cwq->thread->prio)
> +		task_setprio(cwq->thread, prio);
>  	wake_up(&cwq->more_work);
>  }
>
-
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