From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
mhillenb@amazon.de, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent_qs requested
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 07:54:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180709145440.GR3593@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180709144338.GS2476@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:43:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 07:29:32AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > OK, so here are our options:
> >
> > 1. Add the RCU conditional to need_resched(), as David suggests.
> > Peter has concerns about overhead.
>
> Not only overhead, its plain broken, because:
>
> 1) we keep preemption state in other places too
> 2) we check need_resched() in asm
Fair points. And yes, the various asm checks and transitions have
made their presence known to me in other contexts of late. :-/
So what would you suggest?
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-09 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-06 14:53 [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent_qs requested David Woodhouse
2018-07-06 16:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-06 17:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-06 17:14 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-06 21:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 8:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 8:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 9:18 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 10:56 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 11:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 11:12 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 12:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 12:47 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 14:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 12:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 12:57 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 14:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 14:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 14:54 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2018-07-09 15:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 16:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 16:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 18:50 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 20:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 20:35 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 20:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 20:45 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-09 21:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-09 22:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 10:57 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 12:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 12:58 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 14:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 14:23 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 14:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 16:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 17:03 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 17:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 18:01 ` [PATCH v2] kvm/x86: Inform RCU of quiescent state when entering guest mode David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 18:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 18:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 18:39 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-11 20:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 20:54 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 21:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 21:11 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-11 21:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 21:39 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-11 23:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-12 8:31 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-12 11:00 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-12 11:10 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-12 11:58 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-12 12:04 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-11 23:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-12 2:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-12 6:21 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-12 9:52 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 18:31 ` [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent_qs requested Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-11 20:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-11 20:19 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-11 21:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-12 12:00 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-12 12:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-12 16:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-16 15:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-17 8:19 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-17 12:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-18 15:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-18 16:01 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-18 16:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-18 19:41 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-18 20:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-19 0:26 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-07-19 6:45 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-19 7:20 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-19 10:23 ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-07-19 12:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-19 13:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-07-19 13:36 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-19 17:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-23 8:08 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-23 12:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-19 0:32 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-07-19 3:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-07-19 6:16 ` David Woodhouse
2018-07-19 13:17 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-07-19 13:15 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2018-07-10 9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-10 16:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
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