[Xen-changelog] [xen staging] credit2: during scheduling, update the idle mask before using it

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commit a9400d630b341da544ff355405db779356fe8807
Author:     Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu Nov 22 11:54:56 2018 +0000
Commit:     George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu Nov 22 11:54:56 2018 +0000

    credit2: during scheduling, update the idle mask before using it
    
    Load balancing, when happening, at the end of a "scheduler epoch", can
    trigger vcpu migration, which in its turn may call runq_tickle(). If the
    cpu where this happens was idle, but we're now going to schedule a vcpu
    on it, let's update the runq's idle cpus mask accordingly _before_ doing
    load balancing.
    
    Not doing that, in fact, may cause runq_tickle() to think that the cpu
    is still idle, and tickle it to go pick up a vcpu from the runqueue,
    which might be wrong/unideal.
    
    Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/common/sched_credit2.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/sched_credit2.c b/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
index 49a99c0a73..623a325ceb 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched_credit2.c
@@ -3555,6 +3555,13 @@ csched2_schedule(
             __set_bit(__CSFLAG_scheduled, &snext->flags);
         }
 
+        /* Clear the idle mask if necessary */
+        if ( cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &rqd->idle) )
+        {
+            __cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &rqd->idle);
+            smt_idle_mask_clear(cpu, &rqd->smt_idle);
+        }
+
         /*
          * The reset condition is "has a scheduler epoch come to an end?".
          * The way this is enforced is checking whether the vcpu at the top
@@ -3575,13 +3582,6 @@ csched2_schedule(
             balance_load(ops, cpu, now);
         }
 
-        /* Clear the idle mask if necessary */
-        if ( cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &rqd->idle) )
-        {
-            __cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &rqd->idle);
-            smt_idle_mask_clear(cpu, &rqd->smt_idle);
-        }
-
         snext->start_time = now;
         snext->tickled_cpu = -1;
 
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