All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	quchaosheng000406@163.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/doc: add a preemption model overview
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:45:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v77s2f02.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922083101.99685-1-quchaosheng000406@163.com>

Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com> writes:

> The scheduler documentation describes the individual scheduling classes
> and various tuning knobs, but there is nothing that describes the
> preemption models themselves.  The only place where they are documented
> is the kernel-parameters entry for "preempt=", which explains the boot
> time parameter but not the models it selects.
>
> Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-preemption.rst, covering the four
> models, how a scheduling request is honoured under each of them, and
> which of them can be selected at runtime.
>
> The overview follows the scheduling request: a wakeup makes a task
> runnable, the scheduler decides what has to leave the CPU and sets
> TIF_NEED_RESCHED or TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY on it, and the preemption model
> decides where that request is honoured.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com>
> ---

I have applied these two patches.  However: can you please send a
followup with a suitable SPDX line for your new sched-preemption.rst
file?

Thanks,

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-26 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-22  8:31 [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/doc: add a preemption model overview Quchaosheng
2026-09-22  8:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: kernel-parameters: fix a truncated sentence for preempt=lazy Quchaosheng
2026-09-23  7:31   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-09-23  7:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/doc: add a preemption model overview Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-09-26 15:45 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-09-28  2:36   ` [PATCH] Documentation: sched-preemption: Add a SPDX license identifier Quchaosheng

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87v77s2f02.fsf@trenco.lwn.net \
    --to=corbet@lwn.net \
    --cc=bigeasy@linutronix.de \
    --cc=linux-doc@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=quchaosheng000406@163.com \
    --cc=rdunlap@infradead.org \
    --cc=skhan@linuxfoundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.