Use of SCHED_SOFTIRQ

[Vignesh Radhakrishnan]

Hey Sreejith,


softirq's are run as bottom half processing (after an interrupt is handled
or when there is no work to be done -
https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-hacking/basics-softirqs.html )
and sched_softirq is one such soft irq whose only function is confined to
the routine run_rebalance_domain().


__schedule() is the main scheduling function that tries to pick the next
task and then perform context switch and other associated scheduling
functions. Since run_rebalance_domain() need not be run at that exact time
frame, it is scheduled for later time when the cpu can take it up using
softirq's. Therefore __schedule() need not be called in this softirq
context as such because these are independent operations.

Hope this helps.

Thanks and regards,
Vignesh Radhakrishnan

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Sreejith M M <sreejith.mm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was reading LKD by Robert Love. I got the following idea from the book.
>
>
> Correct me if I am worng
> I was checking through source code and I found that on every timer
> interrupt, through sched/fair.c we are raising the SCHED_SOFTIRQ().
> I was checking the relation between SCHED_SOFTIRQ and actual
> __schedule() function.
>
> My assumption:
> schedule() function is the function which selects the processes which
> are ready to run  in run queue. schedule() function is called in every
> timer tick.
>
> What I was thinking is that schedule() will be called as part of
> handling SCHED_SOFTIRQ() . But in source code, SCHED_SOFTIRQ is
> handled through run_rebalance_domain() function (sched/fair.c) . I am
> unable to trace __schedule()  from this function.
>
> Am I missing anything or my assumptions are wrong?
> --
> Regards,
> Sreejith
>
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