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From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, corbet@lwn.net, mingo@redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:42:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54935842.5020507@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141218222846.GH30905@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 12/18/2014 03:28 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:44:19AM -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>> sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice
>
> yuck hatred and much of that.
>
> Also, you fail to explain why a kernel side spin futex-lock is not an
> option.
>

I had explained that when this question came up in the last round of 
discussions. The queuing problem I am trying to solve stems from 
userspace locks. Java and databases implement their own userspace locks 
that do not use futex. Solving this with futex will not help the primary 
users of this solution.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Khalid

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-18 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-18 18:44 [PATCH RESEND v4] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice Khalid Aziz
2014-12-18 22:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-12-18 22:42   ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
2014-12-18 23:02     ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-12-18 23:38       ` Khalid Aziz
2014-12-19  0:27         ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-12-19 21:43           ` Khalid Aziz
2014-12-19 23:57             ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-12-22 16:40               ` Khalid Aziz
     [not found]                 ` <5498498B.90703-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-23 10:52                   ` Ingo Molnar
2014-12-23 15:13                     ` Khalid Aziz
2014-12-23 18:46                       ` Rik van Riel
2014-12-23 20:47                         ` Khalid Aziz
     [not found]                           ` <5499D4D7.90109-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-23 22:33                             ` Rik van Riel
2015-01-13 11:25                         ` Peter Zijlstra

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