Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] sched: define TIF_ALLOW_RESCHED

Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-11T15:04:59Z

On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 11:32:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I was hoping that we'd have some generic way to deal with this where
> we could just say "this thing is reschedulable", and get rid of - or
> at least not increasingly add to - the cond_resched() mess.

Isn't that called PREEMPT=y ? That tracks precisely all the constraints
required to know when/if we can preempt.

The whole voluntary preempt model is basically the traditional
co-operative preemption model and that fully relies on manual yields.

The problem with the REP prefix (and Xen hypercalls) is that
they're long running instructions and it becomes fundamentally
impossible to put a cond_resched() in.

> Yes. I'm starting to think that that the only sane solution is to
> limit cases that can do this a lot, and the "instruciton pointer
> region" approach would certainly work.

From a code locality / I-cache POV, I think a sorted list of
(non overlapping) ranges might be best.