2008/4/23 Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx>: > [ ... ] > > I think we can simplify this further. We really only need to push here if we are not going to reschedule anytime soon (probably white-space damaged): > > > --- a/kernel/sched_rt.c > > +++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c > @@ -1058,11 +1058,14 @@ static void post_schedule_rt(struct rq *rq) > } > } > > - > +/* > + * If we are not running and we are not going to reschedule soon, we should > + * try to push tasks away now > + */ > > static void task_wake_up_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p) > { > if (!task_running(rq, p) && > - (p->prio >= rq->rt.highest_prio) && > + !test_tsk_thread_flag(rq->curr, TIF_NEED_RESCHED) && > rq->rt.overloaded) > push_rt_tasks(rq); > } It's somewhat suboptimal as it doesn't guarantee that 'p' gets control next. e.g. 2 tasks (T0 and T1) have been woken up before an actual re-schedule takes place. Even if T1 is of lower prio than T0, task_wake_up_rt() will see the NEED_RESCHED flag and bail out while it would make sense at this moment to push T1 off this cpu. p.s. hope you are better today. get well! :-) -- Best regards, Dmitry Adamushko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html