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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>,
	Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:56:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009105621.plqufigiauieir7z@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181005181035.GA19828@andrea>

On 2018-10-05 20:10:35 [+0200], Andrea Parri wrote:
> 
> Clearly not my topic..., but out of curiosity:  What do you mean by
> "well-bounded" and "minimal"?  Can you maybe point me to some doc.?

it means that the lock is not held for an arbitrary amount of time like
by processing a list with thousand items. Well-bounded would mean not
process more than one or five (or so) at a time.

>   Andrea

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-09 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-18 13:21 [BUG] dw_wdt watchdog on linux-rt 4.18.5-rt4 not triggering Steffen Trumtrar
2018-09-18 13:46 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-19  6:46   ` Steffen Trumtrar
     [not found]     ` <20180919194303.GA5033@roeck-us.net>
2018-09-20 20:48       ` Julia Cartwright
2018-09-21 13:34         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-21 16:42           ` Julia Cartwright
2018-09-21 20:21             ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-24  7:24         ` Steffen Trumtrar
2018-09-28 21:03           ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix watchdogd wakeup deferral on RT Julia Cartwright
2018-09-28 21:03             ` [PATCH RT 2/2] watchdog, rt: prevent deferral of watchdogd wakeup Julia Cartwright
2018-09-28 22:38               ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-29  6:38                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-29 22:13                   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-09-30  1:41                     ` [kbuild-all] " Li, Philip
2018-09-28 23:20               ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-30 14:00               ` Guenter Roeck
2018-10-05 16:52               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-09-28 21:03             ` [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock Julia Cartwright
2018-10-05 16:46               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-10-05 18:10               ` Andrea Parri
2018-10-09 10:56                 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2018-09-20  8:18   ` [BUG] dw_wdt watchdog on linux-rt 4.18.5-rt4 not triggering Tim Sander
2018-09-18 18:14 ` Julia Cartwright

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