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    SubjectRe: [RFC 0/12][PATCH] SCHED_DEADLINE: core of the scheduling class
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    On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:40 +0200, Raistlin wrote:
    > +struct task_struct *pick_next_task_deadline(struct rq *rq)
    > +{
    > + struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se;
    > + struct task_struct *p;
    > + struct dl_rq *dl_rq;
    > +
    > + dl_rq = &rq->dl;
    > +
    > + if (likely(!dl_rq->dl_nr_running))
    > + return NULL;
    > +
    > + dl_se = pick_next_deadline_entity(rq, dl_rq);
    > + BUG_ON(!dl_se);
    > +
    > + p = deadline_task_of(dl_se);
    > + p->se.exec_start = rq->clock;
    > +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK
    > + if (hrtick_enabled(rq))
    > + start_hrtick_deadline(rq, p);
    > +#endif
    > + return p;
    > +}

    I'm not sure about actually using hrtick like this, I'd expect
    SCHED_DEADLINE to always use hrtimers when available. The only reason
    to use some of the hrtick infrastructure is to re-use the hrtick_start()
    logic which uses IPIs to ensure we program the timer on the right cpu
    (so we can schedule from it).

    The whole IPI mess requires USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, which makes
    CONFIG_HRTICK useful (ensures we have hrtimers enabled and have generic
    IPI bits)

    The problem is that things like hrtick_enabled() also check
    sched_feat(HRTICK) which is disabled by default (because programming the
    clock hw on each schedule was found too expensive) but that should not
    stop SCHED_DEADLINE from using it.





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