Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] mm: Scrub memory from idle loop

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>]

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On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 14:39 -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 06/13/2017 04:19 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > On 12.06.17 at 23:28, <dario.faggioli@citrix.com> wrote:
> > > If some vcpu context work is scheduled, SCHEDULE_SOFTIRQ is
> > > raised.
> > > do_softirq() will call the scheduler, which will see that there
> > > is vcpu
> > > tasklet work to do, and hence confirm in execution the idle vcpu,
> > > which
> > > will get to execute do_tasklet().
> > 
> > Right, so something along these lines will need to go into the
> > commit
> > message.
> 
> 
> So would you then prefer to separate this into two patches, with the
> first just moving do_tasklet() above sleeping?
> 
If you want, I can send a patch to this effect (which can then either
just go in, or Boris can carry it in this series).

Regards,
Dario
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