From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, rafael@kernel.org,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nicolas.pitre@linaro.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC V2 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:12:07 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1601211510500.3873@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A0E31A.6020001@linaro.org>
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 01/20/2016 08:49 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > So now for the allocation/free of that data. We simply allocate/free it
> > along
> > with the irq descriptor. That IRQS_TIMING bit gets set in __setup_irq()
> > except
> > for timer interrupts. That's simple and avoid _all_ the issues.
>
> Indeed, making this as part of the irq code makes everything much more simple
> and self contained. For the shared interrupts, shouldn't we put the timings
> samples into the irqaction structure instead of the irqdesc structure ?
>
> eg.
>
> #define IRQT_MAX_VALUES 4
>
> struct irqaction {
> ...
> #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIMINGS
> u32 irqtimings_samples[IRQT_MAX_VALUES];
> #endif
> ...
> };
>
> So we don't have to deal with the allocation/free under locks. The drawback is
> the array won't be used in the case of the timers.
I still have to ask the question whether a per device information is useful at
all. I don't see the value, but I might miss something.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-21 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-06 15:22 [RFC PATCH 0/2] IRQ based next prediction Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-06 15:22 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] irq: Add a framework to measure interrupt timings Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-08 15:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-12 11:42 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-06 15:22 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-06 17:40 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-07 15:42 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-12 19:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-10 22:37 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-10 22:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-10 22:58 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-10 23:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-08 15:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-12 12:41 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-12 13:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-12 14:16 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-12 14:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-12 14:52 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-12 15:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-12 16:04 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-13 9:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-18 13:21 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 15:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-20 16:00 ` [RFC V2 0/2] IRQ based next prediction Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 16:00 ` [RFC V2 1/2] irq: Add a framework to measure interrupt timings Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 17:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-21 9:25 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-21 10:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-20 19:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-20 19:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-20 20:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-20 20:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-20 20:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-21 9:50 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-21 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-21 12:38 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-21 20:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-21 13:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-21 14:19 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-21 18:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-22 10:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-21 9:26 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 19:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-21 9:53 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 16:00 ` [RFC V2 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 17:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-20 18:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-21 10:03 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 19:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-20 19:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-20 19:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-20 19:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-20 19:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-20 19:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-20 20:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-20 19:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-21 13:54 ` Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-21 14:12 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-01-20 16:00 ` [RFC V2 0/2] IRQ based next prediction Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 16:00 ` [RFC V2 1/2] irq: Add a framework to measure interrupt timings Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 16:00 ` [RFC V2 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period Daniel Lezcano
2016-01-20 20:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2016-01-21 13:04 ` Daniel Lezcano
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