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SubjectRe: Scheduling the highest priority task
On 02.08.2007 21:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Martin Roehricht <ml@felicis.org> wrote:
>
>> On 08/02/2007 05:19 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> >* Martin Roehricht <ml@felicis.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>That's fine with me, that within the same priority-queue any task can
>> >>be chosen. But assume two tasks with highly different priorities, such
>> >>as 105 and 135 are scheduled on the same processor and one of them is
>> >>now to be migrated -- shouldn't be the queue with task P=105
>> >>considered first for migration by this code? Both tasks would use
>> >>different queues with their own linked lists, right?
>> >
>> >yes. What makes you believe that the lower priority one (prio 135) is
>> >chosen? [ as i said before, that will only be chosen if all tasks in the
>> >higher-priority queue (prio 105) are either already running on a CPU or
>> >have recently run so that the cache-hot logic skips them. ]
>>
>> This believe is primarily based on my observations of multiple
>> benchmark runs and also on your statement earlier: »in the SMP
>> migration code, the 'old scheduler' indeed picks the lowest priority
>> one«.
>
> oh, sorry, that was meant to be the 'highest priority one' :-/
>
> so i think you got it all right, i just typoed that first sentence.

Okay, now I think I understood this part of the code correctly. The
reason why I observe a continous migration of the _lower_ priority tasks
is most probably due to the fact that the higher priority one is
currently running, according to:
can_migrate_task() in move_tasks(), and therein:

if (task_running(rq, p))
return 0;

I tracked down via an extended /proc/schedstats that my tasks fall
frequently into this pitfall. I basically solved it by making use of the
more active push-strategy which is called later by load_balance() once
the move_tasks() function did not succeed. So in case I need the higher
priority tasks, I return immediately from move_tasks().

Thanks for your help,
Martin
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