On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:58:25 +0900
Byungchul Park <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Steven and Daniel,
> 
> I've changed the 2nd patch a little bit to consider cpudl_clear()
> additionally. Can I keep your Acked-by on?

Actually, I think this should be a separate patch. It handles a
different issue.

> 
> (I temporarily removed the Acked-by you gave me.)
> 
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
> 
> -----8<-----
> >From 1e368d276186c22f9da298206c718b33e805828d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001  
> From: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 15:05:08 +0900
> Subject: [RESEND PATCH v5 2/2] sched/deadline: Set cp->elements[0].cpu to -1 
> when the
>  heap is empty
> 
> Currently, migrating tasks to cpu0 unconditionally happens when the
> heap is empty, since cp->elements[0].cpu is initialized to 0(=cpu0).
> We have to distinguish between the empty case and cpu0 to avoid the
> unnecessary migrations. Therefore, it has to return an invalid value
> e.i. -1 in the case the heap is empty.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
> index ae4fbdc..a200b36 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
> @@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ int cpudl_find(struct cpudl *cp, struct task_struct *p,
>  
>               WARN_ON(best_cpu != -1 && !cpu_present(best_cpu));
>  
> +             /* The heap tree is empty, just return. */
> +             if (best_cpu == -1)
> +                     return 0;
> +

Actually, why not put the if before the WARN_ON, and then we can
simplify the WARN_ON:

        if (best_cpu == -1)
                return 0;

        WARN_ON(!cpu_present(best_cpu));

-- Steve

>               if (cpumask_test_cpu(best_cpu, &p->cpus_allowed) &&
>                   dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, cpudl_maximum_dl(cp))) {
>                       if (later_mask)
> @@ -172,6 +176,13 @@ void cpudl_clear(struct cpudl *cp, int cpu)
>                * This could happen if a rq_offline_dl is
>                * called for a CPU without -dl tasks running.
>                */
> +     } else if (cp->size == 1){
> +             /* Only one element in the heap, clear it. */
> +             cp->elements[0].cpu = -1;
> +             cp->elements[cpu].idx = IDX_INVALID;
> +             cp->size = 0;
> +
> +             cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cp->free_cpus);
>       } else {
>               new_cpu = cp->elements[cp->size - 1].cpu;
>               cp->elements[old_idx].dl = cp->elements[cp->size - 1].dl;
> @@ -267,6 +278,9 @@ int cpudl_init(struct cpudl *cp)
>       for_each_possible_cpu(i)
>               cp->elements[i].idx = IDX_INVALID;
>  
> +     /* Mark heap as initially empty. */
> +     cp->elements[0].cpu = -1;
> +
>       return 0;
>  }
>  

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