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Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:39:22 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4b83b443-baa8-4218-8412-ddfb0dda8ac3@linux.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:09:21 +0530 X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Paravirt CPUs and push task for less vCPU preemption To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de, yury.norov@gmail.com, maddy@linux.ibm.com, srikar@linux.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, seanjc@google.com, kprateek.nayak@amd.com, vschneid@redhat.com, iii@linux.ibm.com, huschle@linux.ibm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu References: <20251119124449.1149616-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com> <2025112454-phonics-crept-5b98@gregkh> From: Shrikanth Hegde Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <2025112454-phonics-crept-5b98@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; 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On 11/24/25 10:35 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 06:14:32PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote: >> Detailed problem statement and some of the implementation choices were >> discussed earlier[1]. >> >> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250910174210.1969750-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com/ >> >> This is likely the version which would be used for LPC2025 discussion on >> this topic. Feel free to provide your suggestion and hoping for a solution >> that works for different architectures and it's use cases. >> >> All the existing alternatives such as cpu hotplug, creating isolated >> partitions etc break the user affinity. Since number of CPUs to use change >> depending on the steal time, it is not driven by User. Hence it would be >> wrong to break the affinity. This series allows if the task is pinned >> only paravirt CPUs, it will continue running there. >> >> Changes compared v3[1]: > > There is no "v" for this series :( > I thought about adding v1. I made it as PATCH from RFC PATCH since functionally it should be complete now with arch bits. Since it is v1, I remember usually people send out without adding v1. after v1 had tags such as v2. I will keep v2 for the next series.