From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: let the scheduler see CPU idle states
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:17:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140918231715.GO2848@worktop.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1409181425080.8647@knanqh.ubzr>
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:32:25PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > So what is it that you really need to do here?
>
> In short, we don't want the cpufreq data to go away (see the 2 scenarios
> above) while the scheduler is looking at it. The scheduler uses the
> provided accessors (see patch 2/2) so we can put any protection
> mechanism we want in them. A simple spinlock could do just as well
> which should be good enough.
rq->lock disables interrupts so on that something like
kick_all_cpus_sync() will guarantee what you need --
wake_up_all_idle_cpus() will not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-18 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 15:32 [PATCH v2 0/2] sched/idle : find the best idle CPU with cpuidle info Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-04 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: let the scheduler see CPU idle states Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-18 17:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-18 17:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-18 23:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-18 18:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-18 23:17 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-09-18 23:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19 18:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-04 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] sched/fair: leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-05 7:52 ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-09-18 23:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19 0:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19 4:49 ` Yao Dongdong
2014-09-30 21:58 ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-30 23:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-10-02 17:15 ` [PATCH RFC] sched,idle: teach select_idle_sibling about idle states Rik van Riel
2014-10-03 6:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-10-03 6:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-10-03 7:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-03 13:05 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-10-03 14:28 ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-03 14:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-03 15:37 ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-09 16:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-03 18:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] sched/idle : find the best idle CPU with cpuidle info Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 22:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-10 23:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 23:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 23:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-18 0:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-18 23:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19 18:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
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