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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL + CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL = nogo
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 06:03:31 -0800
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On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 02:26:28PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 04:37 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: 
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:31:20AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 19:23 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > 
> > > > An untested patch that gets rid of the RCU_SOFTIRQs in this case is below.
> > > 
> > > Yup, toasted.
> > 
> > You lost me on this one.  If my patch broke your system, any chance of
> > any diagnostic information?
> 
> No no, the RCU_SOFTIRQs are toast, history, gone.

Ah, I do like that outcome much better!  ;-)  The scheduling-clock
interrupts are gone (or at least reduced) as well?

And does this mean that I can have your Tested-by?

							Thanx, Paul