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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	bobby prani <bobby.prani@gmail.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] membarrier: handle nohz_full with expedited thread registration
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:53:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170117205321.GF5238@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170117035521.GB2787@lerouge>

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:55:22AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

[ . . . ]

> In fact due to the complexity involved, I have to ask first if we
> really need this feature.  Typically nohz_full workloads don't want to
> be disturbed at all, so do we have real and significant usecases of CPU
> isolation workloads that want to be concerned by this membarrier so much
> that they can tolerate some random IRQ?

I believe that we need to explore the options for implementing it and
to -at- -least- have a patch ready, even if that patch doesn't go
upstream immediately.

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-17 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-16 19:51 [RFC PATCH] membarrier: handle nohz_full with expedited thread registration Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-01-16 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-16 22:56   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-01-16 23:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-17  2:09       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-01-17  3:55     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2017-01-17 20:53       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-01-18 11:00         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-19 22:01           ` Paul McKenney
2017-01-17 21:56       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2017-01-17 23:29         ` Steven Rostedt

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