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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: CFS low-latency features
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:37:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282894655.1975.1650.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100826230934.GA4194@Krystal>

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:09 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > WTF can't the damned delivery thread not be created when timer_create
> > is called and the signal be delivered to that very thread directly via
> > SIGEV_THREAD_ID ?
> 
> Yeah, that sounds exactly like what I proposed about an hour ago on IRC ;) I'm
> pretty sure that would work.
> 
> The only thing we might have to be careful about is what happens if the timer
> re-fires before the thread completes its execution. We might want to let the
> signal handler detect these overruns somehow.

Simply don't use SIGEV_THREAD and spawn you own thread and use
SIGEV_THREAD_ID yourself, the programmer knows the semantics and knows
if he cares about overlapping timers etc.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-27  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 18:09 [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: CFS low-latency features Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] sched: fix string comparison in features Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] sched: debug spread check account for nr_running Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] sched: FAIR_SLEEPERS feature Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] sched: debug cleanup place entity Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] sched buddy enable buddy logic starting at 2 running threads Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] sched: dynamic min_vruntime Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] sched rename struct task in_iowait field to sched_in_iowait Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] sched input interactivity-driven next buddy Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] sched: timer-driven " Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 18:02   ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] sched: timer-driven next buddy (update) Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 18:14     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] sched: fork expedited Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] sched: fair sleepers for timer and interactive Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:57 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: CFS low-latency features Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-26 21:25   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-26 22:22     ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-26 23:09       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 23:36         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27  7:38           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 15:23             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27  8:43           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-27 15:50             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27  7:37         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-08-27 15:21           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 15:41             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 16:09               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 17:27                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 18:32                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 19:23                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 19:57                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-31 15:02                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 23:18       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 23:28         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 23:38           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 23:53             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27  0:09               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-27 15:18                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 15:20                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-27 15:30                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 15:41                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-26 23:49   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27  7:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27  8:19       ` Mike Galbraith
2010-08-27 15:43         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 18:38           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-28  7:33             ` Mike Galbraith
2010-08-27 10:47 ` Indan Zupancic
2010-08-27 10:58   ` Peter Zijlstra

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