Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: readjust the load whenever task_setprio()is invoked

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>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at  8:43 AM, in message <1216384984.28405.36.camel@twins>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 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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