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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] sched/deadline: support dl task migrate during cpu hotplug

On 14/11/4 下午6:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:23:45PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:32:25AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 07:57:48AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:41:11AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:28:17PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>>>> So what is wrong with making dl_task_timer() deal with it? The timer
>>>>> will still fire on the correct time, canceling it and or otherwise
>>>>> messing with the CBS is wrong. Once it fires, all we need to do is
>>>>> migrate it to another cpu (preferably one that is still online of course
>>>>> :-).
>>>> Do you mean what I need to do is push the task to another cpu in dl_task_timer()
>>>> if rq is offline?
>>> That does indeed appear to be the sensible fix to me.
>>>
>>>> In addition, what will happen if dl task can't preempt on
>>>> another cpu?
>>> So if we find that the rq the task was on is no longer available, we
>>> need to select a new rq, the 'right' rq would be the one running the
>>> latest deadline.
>>>
>>> If it cannot preempt the latest (running) deadline, it was not eligible
>>> for running in the first place so no worries, right?
>> I think this will lead to this deadline task cannot running on any rqs any more.
>> If my understanding is not right, when it will be picked?
> So you unconditionally place it on the rq with the latest deadline. If
> it cannot preempt, at least its on an online cpu. It will get scheduled
> whenever its deadline is one of the N earliest, with N the number of
> online CPUs.

Got it. Thanks for everybody's reply. ;-) I will make a patch tomorrow.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

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