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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	lenb@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>,
	Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	rui.zhang@intel.com, jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] idle, thermal, acpi: Remove home grown idle implementations
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:23:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528CF028.2040002@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1311201814410.30673@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>

On 11/20/2013 9:23 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>> On 11/20/2013 8:04 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> This does not fully preseve existing behaviour in that the generic
>>> idle cycle function calls into the normal cpuidle governed idle
>>> routines and should thus respect things like QoS parameters and the
>>> like.
>>
>>
>> NAK on the powerclamp side.
>>
>> powerclamp MUST NOT do that....
>> it is needed to go to the deepest state no matter what
>> (this is for when your system is overheating. there is not a lot of choice
>> here... alternative is an emergency reset that the hardware does for safety)
>
> So that whole machinery falls apart when the thing which is running on
> that hot core is a while(1) loop with a higher or equal FIFO priority
> than this thread. Even if you'd run at prio 99, then there is no
> guarantee that the cpu hog does not run with prio 99 as well and due
> to FIFO and being on the CPU it's not going to let you on.

the idea was to at least give people who know what they're doing a chance to run


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20 16:04 [PATCH 0/7] Cure some vaux idle wrackage Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:04 ` [PATCH 1/7] x86, acpi, idle: Restructure the mwait idle routines Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/7] sched, preempt: Fixup missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-21  8:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:04 ` [PATCH 3/7] idle, thermal, acpi: Remove home grown idle implementations Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:40   ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-11-20 16:59     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 17:23     ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-11-20 17:23       ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2013-11-20 17:55         ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-11-20 18:21           ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-11-20 19:38             ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-11-20 22:08               ` Jacob Pan
2013-11-21  0:54   ` Jacob Pan
2013-11-21  8:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-21 16:07       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-21 16:21         ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-11-21 19:19           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-21 19:45             ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-11-21 20:07               ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-22  0:10                 ` Jacob Pan
2013-11-22  4:20                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-22 11:33                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-22 17:17                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-21 16:29         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-21 17:27           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-20 16:04 ` [PATCH 4/7] preempt, locking: Rework local_bh_{dis,en}able() Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:04 ` [PATCH 5/7] locking: Optimize lock_bh functions Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 16:04 ` [PATCH 6/7] sched: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 18:02   ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-11-20 18:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 20:14       ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-11-21 10:10     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-21 13:26       ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-11-21 13:39         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-22  6:56           ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-11-22 11:30             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-26  7:15               ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-11-26 10:51                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-11-20 16:04 ` [PATCH 7/7] preempt: Take away preempt_enable_no_resched() from modules Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 18:54   ` Jacob Pan
2013-11-20 19:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 19:18     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 19:29       ` Jacob Pan
2013-11-20 16:34 ` [PATCH 0/7] Cure some vaux idle wrackage Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20 17:19   ` Jacob Pan
2013-11-20 17:24     ` Peter Zijlstra

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