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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>, "mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove WAKEUP_PREEMPT feature check in entity_tick
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:45:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311939933.5890.341.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110729084637.GC12106@zhy>

On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 16:46 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> Let's take UP for example, we have cpu-hug task A and threadirq B.
> 
>         n tick          --->            n+1 tick
> set_tsk_need_resched(A);
>                 B comes in and
>                 wake up thread-B;
> 
> So for system on which we disable WAKEUP_PREEMPT,
> if we don't have that check, thread-B will wait until n+1 tick comes
> to get to run.
> But if we have that check, thread-B will get to run after IRQ-B returns.

But that's exactly what wakeup preemption is about, waking tasks don't
get to preempt running tasks. So no doing that preemption is exactly
right for !WAKEUP_PREEMPT.

Anyway, I've queued the removal patch since that removes all
confusion ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-29 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-28  9:43 [PATCH] sched: Remove WAKEUP_PREEMPT feature check in entity_tick Lin Ming
2011-07-29  6:21 ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  6:24   ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  6:49   ` Lin Ming
2011-07-29  7:03     ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  7:36       ` Lin Ming
2011-07-29  7:46         ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  7:56           ` Lin Ming
2011-07-29  7:56           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-29  8:18             ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  8:20               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-29  8:44                 ` Lin Ming
2011-07-29  8:46                 ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-29 11:45                   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-08-01  1:33                     ` Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  8:20             ` [RFC PATCH] sched: Kill WAKEUP_PREEMPT Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  8:30               ` Lin Ming
2011-07-29  8:32                 ` Lin Ming
2011-08-14 15:57               ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Yong Zhang
2011-07-29  9:04             ` [PATCH] sched: Remove WAKEUP_PREEMPT feature check in entity_tick Mike Galbraith

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