From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757215Ab2LHAJx (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 19:09:53 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:10245 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755608Ab2LHAJD (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 19:09:03 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=f9bK9ZOM c=1 sm=0 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:17 a=mNMOxpOpBa8A:10 a=Ciwy3NGCPMMA:10 a=7rGhMGw_aYQA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=bbbx4UPp9XUA:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=a3FCvQcZPK8A:10 a=CJNL06MskVrAI5SoftQA:9 a=jeBq3FmKZ4MA:10 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 74.67.115.198 Message-Id: <20121208000900.747763148@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:56:19 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Carsten Emde , John Kacur , Peter Zijlstra , Clark Williams , Ingo Molnar Subject: [RFC][PATCH RT 4/4] sched/rt: Initiate a pull when the priority of a task is lowered References: <20121207235615.206108556@goodmis.org> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=rt-migrate-redo.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If a task lowers its priority (say by losing priority inheritance) if a higher priority task is waiting on another CPU, initiate a pull. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Index: linux-rt.git/kernel/sched/rt.c =================================================================== --- linux-rt.git.orig/kernel/sched/rt.c +++ linux-rt.git/kernel/sched/rt.c @@ -997,6 +997,8 @@ inc_rt_prio(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int pri inc_rt_prio_smp(rt_rq, prio, prev_prio); } +static int pull_rt_task(struct rq *this_rq); + static void dec_rt_prio(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int prio) { @@ -1021,6 +1023,9 @@ dec_rt_prio(struct rt_rq *rt_rq, int pri rt_rq->highest_prio.curr = MAX_RT_PRIO; dec_rt_prio_smp(rt_rq, prio, prev_prio); + + if (prev_prio < rt_rq->highest_prio.curr) + pull_rt_task(rq_of_rt_rq(rt_rq)); } #else