On Wed, 10 May 2017 21:03:37 +0800
Xunlei Pang <xlp...@redhat.com> wrote:
> When a contrained task is throttled by dl_check_constrained_dl(),
> it may carry the remaining positive runtime, as a result when
> dl_task_timer() fires and calls replenish_dl_entity(), it will
> not be replenished correctly due to the positive dl_se->runtime.
>
> This patch assigns its runtime to 0 if positive after throttling.
>
> Fixes: df8eac8cafce ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task
> activated after the deadline)
> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bris...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlp...@redhat.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/deadline.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index a2ce590..d3d291e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -723,6 +723,8 @@ static inline void dl_check_constrained_dl(struct
> sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
> if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted || !start_dl_timer(p)))
> return;
> dl_se->dl_throttled = 1;
> + if (dl_se->runtime > 0)
> + dl_se->runtime = 0;
This makes sense to me, but should we have any accounting for runtime
that was missed due to wakeups and such?
-- Steve
> }
> }
>
