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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] sched: readjust the load whenever task_setprio()is invoked
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at  8:43 AM, in message <1216384984.28405.36.camel@twins>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:37 -0600, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> The load may change with the priority, so be sure to recompute its value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
>> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
> Right, but in this case we'd need to do the dec/inc load game again
> because otherwise we'll skew stuff - see the previuos mail on how
> dequeue_task() doesn't actually do that.
>
> Also, it looks like current mainline still has this issue.
>
> OTOH - since prio boosting is a temporal feature, not changing the load
> isn't too bad, we ought to get back to where we came from pretty
> quickly.

Yeah, I agree. This issue probably didn't actually matter much in practice.

It just "looked" wrong, so I figured I'd fix it ;)

-Greg

>
>
>
>> ---
>>
>> kernel/sched.c | 1 +
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
>> index b046754..c3f41b9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
>> @@ -4637,6 +4637,7 @@ void task_setprio(struct task_struct *p, int prio)
>> p->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
>>
>> p->prio = prio;
>> + set_load_weight(p);
>>
>> // trace_special_pid(p->pid, __PRIO(oldprio), PRIO(p));
>> prev_resched = _need_resched();
>>





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