From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: provide scheduler_ipi() callback in response to smp_send_reschedule()
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:43:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295296983.30950.369.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295296310.2148.29.camel@pasglop>
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 07:31 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>=20
> Beware of false positive, I've used "fake" reschedule IPIs in the past
> for other things (like kicking a CPU out of sleep state for unrelated
> reasons). Nothing that I know that is upstream today but some of that
> might come back. I'd like to avoid having to add an atomic to know if
> it's a real reschedule, will the scheduler be smart enough to not bother
> with false positives ?=20
Yes it can deal with that, some will be for reschedules, some will be
for ttwu tail ends and x86 too uses this ipi for a few random other
things like kicking kvm out of guest context..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-17 11:07 [PATCH] sched: provide scheduler_ipi() callback in response to smp_send_reschedule() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-17 11:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-17 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-17 11:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-17 11:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-17 13:52 ` Chris Metcalf
2011-01-17 13:58 ` Jesper Nilsson
2011-01-17 12:18 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2011-01-17 19:18 ` David Daney
2011-01-17 19:49 ` [uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2011-01-17 20:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-17 20:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-01-17 20:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-02-06 23:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-02-07 13:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-09 6:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-02-09 9:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
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