From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Tony Lindgren' <tony@atomide.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] iopoll: Call cpu_relax() in busy loops
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 10:48:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <494a000774b546e4aae00ae0a7dfeae4@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230511064839.GG14287@atomide.com>
From: Tony Lindgren
> Sent: 11 May 2023 07:49
>
> * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> [230510 13:23]:
> > It is considered good practice to call cpu_relax() in busy loops, see
> > Documentation/process/volatile-considered-harmful.rst. This can not
> > only lower CPU power consumption or yield to a hyperthreaded twin
> > processor, but also allows an architecture to mitigate hardware issues
> > (e.g. ARM Erratum 754327 for Cortex-A9 prior to r2p0) in the
> > architecture-specific cpu_relax() implementation.
Don't you also need to call cond_resched() (at least some times).
Otherwise the process can't be pre-empted and a RT process
that last ran on that cpu will never be scheduled.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-11 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-10 13:23 [PATCH v2 0/2] iopoll: Busy loop and timeout improvements Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-10 13:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] iopoll: Call cpu_relax() in busy loops Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-11 6:48 ` Tony Lindgren
2023-05-11 10:48 ` David Laight [this message]
2023-05-23 7:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-23 8:55 ` David Laight
2023-05-11 9:48 ` Ulf Hansson
2023-05-10 13:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] iopoll: Do not use timekeeping in read_poll_timeout_atomic() Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-10 13:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-05-10 13:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-10 13:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-05-11 6:48 ` Tony Lindgren
2023-05-11 10:26 ` Ulf Hansson
2023-05-11 12:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-12 7:53 ` Ulf Hansson
2023-05-12 8:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-15 9:26 ` Ulf Hansson
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