From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:core/rcu] Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:13:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110526061348.GA26775@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110526013029.GA28103@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
>
> Upon creation, kthreads are in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, which can
> result in softlockup warnings. Because some of RCU's kthreads can
> legitimately be idle indefinitely, start them in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
> state in order to avoid those warnings.
>
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
this should also solve load average artifacts - do not
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks skew the load upwards?
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 6:14 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <tip-80d02085d99039b3b7f3a73c8896226b0cb1ba07@git.kernel.org>
2011-05-20 21:04 ` [tip:core/rcu] Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof" Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20 22:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-20 23:09 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20 23:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-20 23:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20 23:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-21 0:02 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-21 13:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-21 14:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-23 20:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-23 21:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-23 22:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-23 22:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-23 22:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-24 1:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-24 1:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-24 1:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-24 21:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25 0:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 0:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25 4:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 20:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 7:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 0:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 0:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25 4:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 7:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 20:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 20:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 22:15 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25 22:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 22:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-26 1:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26 1:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26 6:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-26 14:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26 17:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26 20:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 15:08 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-26 16:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-28 1:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-28 4:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-28 6:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-24 1:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
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