From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rientjes@google.com, mbligh@google.com, thockin@google.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:04:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090209100452.GD20467@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090206233747.GA8747@google.com>
* Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> wrote:
> Patch against tip/core/softlockup
>
> ---
> Impact: saves sizeof(long) bytes per task_struct
>
> By guaranteeing that sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs have elapsed between
> tasklist scans we can avoid using timestamps.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
> ---
> include/linux/sched.h | 1 -
> kernel/fork.c | 8 +++-----
> kernel/hung_task.c | 48 +++++++++---------------------------------------
> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
Nice simplification!
Applied to tip/core/softlockup, thanks Mandeep.
(i fixed the one scripts/checkpatch.pl error that your patch triggered)
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 23:37 [PATCH] softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task Mandeep Singh Baines
2009-02-07 16:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-07 16:34 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-07 16:51 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-07 17:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-09 19:29 ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2009-02-09 19:54 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-09 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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