From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, luto@amacapital.net,
nicolas.pitre@linaro.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org,
umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/8] sched,idle,alpha: Switch from TS_POLLING to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 07:38:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5347FE56.5000206@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140411135218.181563050@infradead.org>
On 04/11/2014 06:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Standardize the idle polling indicator to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG such that
> both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG are in the same word.
> This will allow us, using fetch_or(), to both set NEED_RESCHED and
> check for POLLING_NRFLAG in a single operation and avoid pointless
> wakeups.
>
> Changing from the non-atomic thread_info::status flags to the atomic
> thread_info::flags shouldn't be a big issue since most polling state
> changes were followed/preceded by a full memory barrier anyway.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
> arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 inser
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-11 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-11 13:42 [RFC][PATCH 0/8] sched,idle: need resched polling rework Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8] sched,idle,alpha: Switch from TS_POLLING to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 14:38 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8] sched,idle,tile: " Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 15:15 ` Chris Metcalf
2014-04-11 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8] sched,idle,ia64: " Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8] sched,idle,x86: " Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8] sched,idle: Remove TS_POLLING support Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] sched,idle: Avoid spurious wakeup IPIs Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-13 21:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-05-09 13:37 ` James Hogan
2014-05-09 13:37 ` James Hogan
2014-05-09 14:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 14:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 14:40 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-09 14:40 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-09 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 14:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-09 14:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-09 17:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 17:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 17:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 17:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 17:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-09 17:09 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-09 17:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 17:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-19 12:54 ` [tip:sched/arch] arm64: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 12:26 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-09 14:51 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] sched,idle: Avoid spurious wakeup IPIs James Hogan
2014-05-09 14:51 ` James Hogan
2014-05-09 14:51 ` James Hogan
[not found] ` <536CEB7E.9080007-1AXoQHu6uovQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-15 9:17 ` James Hogan
2014-05-15 9:17 ` James Hogan
2014-05-15 9:17 ` James Hogan
2014-05-19 12:54 ` [tip:sched/arch] metag: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG tip-bot for James Hogan
2014-05-22 12:26 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for James Hogan
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8] sched,idle: Delay clearing the polling bit Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-13 21:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-11 13:42 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8] sched,idle: Reflow cpuidle_idle_call() Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-13 21:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-14 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-14 9:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-14 13:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-11 15:00 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/8] sched,idle: need resched polling rework Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-11 15:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 12:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 13:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29 0:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-29 6:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 6:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-03 6:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 10:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 14:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 16:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-03 16:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 16:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-03 17:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 18:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 18:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-03 20:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-12 8:35 ` Mike Galbraith
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