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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] stop_machine: Make migration_cpu_stop() does useful works for CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE
On 09/09, Cheng Chao wrote:
>
> If the migration_cpu_stop() can not migrate,why do we call stop_one_cpu()?
> It just makes the task TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, wakes up the stopper thread,
> executes migration_cpu_stop(), and the stopper thread wakes up the task.

and this finally migrates the target, ttwu() does another
select_task_rq().

> This patch keeps the task TASK_RUNNING instead of TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE,
> so the migration_cpu_stop() can do useful works.

yes, this avoids the extra wakeup/select_task_rq. So this is the minor
optimization.

> Signed-off-by: Cheng Chao <chengchao@kedacom.com>
> ---
> kernel/stop_machine.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
> index 4a1ca5f..41aea5e 100644
> --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
> +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
> @@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ int stop_one_cpu(unsigned int cpu, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg)
> cpu_stop_init_done(&done, 1);
> if (!cpu_stop_queue_work(cpu, &work))
> return -ENOENT;
> +
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE)
> + /*
> + * Makes the stopper thread run as soon as possible.
> + * And if the caller is TASK_RUNNING, keeps the caller TASK_RUNNING.
> + * It's special useful for some callers which are expected to be
> + * TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED.
> + * sched_exec does benefit from this improvement.
> + */
> + schedule();

Well. This can help in general, wait_for_completion() won't block, but
only if we queue the work on the same CPU. Otherwise this schedule() adds
the unnecessary pessimization.

That is why I suggested to use _cond_resched() instead of schedule().

But let me repeat, I leave this to maintainers.

Oleg.

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