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From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luca.abeni@santannapisa.it,
	claudio@evidence.eu.com, tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it,
	alessio.balsini@gmail.com, bristot@redhat.com,
	will.deacon@arm.com, andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com,
	dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, patrick.bellasi@arm.com,
	henrik@austad.us, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFD/RFC PATCH 0/8] Towards implementing proxy execution
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 11:58:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009095835.GE9130@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181009094441.GI5663@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 09/10/18 11:44, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 11:24:26AM +0200, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > The main concerns I have with the current approach is that, being based
> > on mutex.c, it's both
> > 
> >  - not linked with futexes
> >  - not involving "legacy" priority inheritance (rt_mutex.c)
> > 
> > I believe one of the main reasons Peter started this on mutexes is to
> > have better coverage of potential problems (which I can assure everybody
> > it had). I'm not yet sure what should we do moving forward, and this is
> > exactly what I'd be pleased to hear your opinions on.
> 
> Well that, and mutex was 'simple', I didn't have to go rip out all the
> legacy PI crud.

Indeed.

> If this all ends up working well, the solution is 'simple' and we can
> simply copy mutex to rt_mutex or something along those lines if we want
> to keep the distinction between them. Alternatively we simply delete
> rt_mutex.

Ah.. right.. sounds *scary*, but I guess it might be an option after
all.

> Thanks for reviving this.. it's been an 'interesting' year and a half
> since I wrote all this and I've really not had time to work on it.

n/p, it has been a long standing thing to look at for me as well. Thanks
again for sharing your patches!

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-09  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-09  9:24 [RFD/RFC PATCH 0/8] Towards implementing proxy execution Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 1/8] locking/mutex: Convert mutex::wait_lock to raw_spinlock_t Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 2/8] locking/mutex: Removes wakeups from under mutex::wait_lock Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 3/8] locking/mutex: Rework task_struct::blocked_on Juri Lelli
2018-10-10 10:43   ` luca abeni
2018-10-10 11:06     ` Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 4/8] sched: Split scheduler execution context Juri Lelli
2019-05-06 11:06   ` Claudio Scordino
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 5/8] sched: Add proxy execution Juri Lelli
2018-10-10 11:10   ` luca abeni
2018-10-11 12:34     ` Juri Lelli
2018-10-11 12:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-11 13:42         ` Juri Lelli
2018-10-12  7:22         ` luca abeni
2018-10-12  8:30           ` Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 6/8] locking/mutex: make mutex::wait_lock irq safe Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 7/8] sched: Ensure blocked_on is always guarded by blocked_lock Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:24 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 8/8] sched: Fixup task CPUs for potential proxies Juri Lelli
2018-10-09  9:44 ` [RFD/RFC PATCH 0/8] Towards implementing proxy execution Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-09  9:58   ` Juri Lelli [this message]
2018-10-09 10:51 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-09 11:56   ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2018-10-09 12:35     ` Juri Lelli
2018-10-10 10:34 ` luca abeni
2018-10-10 10:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-10 11:16     ` luca abeni
2018-10-10 11:23       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-10 12:27         ` Juri Lelli
2018-10-10 11:56 ` Henrik Austad
2018-10-10 12:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-10 13:48     ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2018-10-10 12:36   ` Juri Lelli

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