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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
	dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu] Add callback-free CPUs
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:21:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346955710.18408.58.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120906174652.GM2448@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 10:46 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Getting these
> CPUs into adaptive-tick mode more quickly reduces OS jitter, which is
> one big expected benefit of adaptive-tick mode. 

I'm not sure I agree with that statement. Its a transition thing and
therefore statistically irrelevant on the whole -- assuming we
transition rarely.

And for those who cannot deal with the transition effects, a barrier was
proposed which would wait until the system hit this state -- although
the specific implementation of this isn't clear yet afaik.

I very much think we should focus on getting adaptive tick working as
simple as possible and worry about transition effects later, if at all.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-05 21:39 [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu] Add callback-free CPUs Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-05 21:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-05 23:44   ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 10:13     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 16:47       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 16:58         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:46           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 18:21             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-09-06 20:39               ` Paul E. McKenney

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