Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:06 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>   
>> Max Krasnyansky wrote:
>>     
>>> Greg, correct me if I'm wrong but we seem to have exact same issue with the
>>> rq->rq->online map. Lets take "cpu going down" for example. We're clearing
>>> rq->rd->online bit on DYING event, but nothing AFAICS prevents another cpu
>>> calling rebuild_sched_domains()->partition_sched_domains() in the middle of
>>> the hotplug sequence.
>>> partition_sched_domains() will happily reset rd->rq->online mask and things
>>> will fail. I'm talking about this path
>>>
>>> __build_sched_domains() -> cpu_attach_domain() -> rq_attach_root()
>>> 	...
>>> 	cpu_set(rq->cpu, rd->span);
>>> 	if (cpu_isset(rq->cpu, cpu_online_map))
>>> 		set_rq_online(rq);
>>> 	...
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I think you are right, but wouldn't s/online/active above fix that as 
>> well?  The active_map didnt exist at the time that code went in initially ;)
>>
>>     
>>> --
>>>
>>> btw Why didn't we convert sched*.c to use rq->rd->online when it was
>>> introduced ? ie Instead of using cpu_online_map directly.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I think things were converted where they made sense to convert.  But we 
>> also had a different goal at that time, so perhaps something was 
>> missed.  If you think something else should be converted, please point 
>> it out.
>>
>> In the meantime, I would suggest we consider this patch on top of yours 
>> (applies to tip/sched/devel):
>>
>> ----------------------
>>
>> sched: Fully integrate cpus_active_map and root-domain code
>>    
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
>>     
>
>
> Right, makes sense.
>
> ACK
>   

Thanks Peter.

BTW: I should mention that this was just an RFC.  I haven't even build 
tested it yet.  I will do this now.

Regards,
-Greg
>   
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
>> index 62b1b8e..99ba70d 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
>> @@ -6611,7 +6611,7 @@ static void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct 
>> root_domain *rd)
>>      rq->rd = rd;
>>  
>>      cpu_set(rq->cpu, rd->span);
>> -    if (cpu_isset(rq->cpu, cpu_online_map))
>> +    if (cpu_isset(rq->cpu, cpu_active_map))
>>          set_rq_online(rq);
>>  
>>      spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
>> index 7f70026..2bae8de 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
>> @@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ static void yield_task_fair(struct rq *rq)
>>   * search starts with cpus closest then further out as needed,
>>   * so we always favor a closer, idle cpu.
>>   * Domains may include CPUs that are not usable for migration,
>> - * hence we need to mask them out (cpu_active_map)
>> + * hence we need to mask them out (rq->rd->online)
>>   *
>>   * Returns the CPU we should wake onto.
>>   */
>> @@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ static int wake_idle(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
>>              || ((sd->flags & SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR)
>>              && !task_hot(p, task_rq(p)->clock, sd))) {
>>              cpus_and(tmp, sd->span, p->cpus_allowed);
>> -            cpus_and(tmp, tmp, cpu_active_map);
>> +            cpus_and(tmp, tmp, task_rq(p)->rd->online);
>>              for_each_cpu_mask(i, tmp) {
>>                  if (idle_cpu(i)) {
>>                      if (i != task_cpu(p)) {
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c
>> index 24621ce..d93169d 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched_rt.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c
>> @@ -936,13 +936,6 @@ static int find_lowest_rq(struct task_struct *task)
>>          return -1; /* No targets found */
>>  
>>      /*
>> -     * Only consider CPUs that are usable for migration.
>> -     * I guess we might want to change cpupri_find() to ignore those
>> -     * in the first place.
>> -     */
>> -    cpus_and(*lowest_mask, *lowest_mask, cpu_active_map);
>> -
>> -    /*
>>       * At this point we have built a mask of cpus representing the
>>       * lowest priority tasks in the system.  Now we want to elect
>>       * the best one based on our affinity and topology.
>>
>> --------------
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Greg
>>
>>     
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