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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mkl@pengutronix.de, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sched: dev_deactivate_many(): use msleep(1) instead of yield() to wait for outstanding qdisc_run calls
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:26:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1394166397.5056.40.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140306.160622.59358366688518505.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 16:06 -0500, David Miller wrote: 
> From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
> Date: Wed,  5 Mar 2014 00:49:47 +0100
> 
> > @@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ void dev_deactivate_many(struct list_head *head)
> >  	/* Wait for outstanding qdisc_run calls. */
> >  	list_for_each_entry(dev, head, unreg_list)
> >  		while (some_qdisc_is_busy(dev))
> > -			yield();
> > +			msleep(1)
> >  }
> 
> I don't understand this.
> 
> yield() should really _mean_ yield.

It does, but yield() semantics make it useless for what you want to do..
and pretty much undefined for anything other than SCHED_FIFO.  If you
really want to give up the CPU to any old body, you have to sleep.

-Mike





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-07  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-04 23:49 [PATCH] net: sched: dev_deactivate_many(): use msleep(1) instead of yield() to wait for outstanding qdisc_run calls Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-03-06 21:06 ` David Miller
2014-03-06 21:39   ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2014-03-07 15:47     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-03-07  4:26   ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2014-03-09 19:09   ` Ben Hutchings
2014-03-09 22:53     ` David Miller
2014-03-09 23:17       ` Ben Hutchings
2014-03-09 23:28         ` David Lang
2014-03-10  0:07       ` Stanislav Meduna
2014-03-31 21:49       ` [PATCH] net: sched: dev_deactivate_many(): use msleep(1) instead of yield() to wait for outstanding qdisc_run callsb Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-02 11:07         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-02 11:17           ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-04 15:19             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 15:26               ` David Miller
2014-04-07 11:19                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 15:28               ` David Miller
2014-04-07 11:24                 ` Peter Zijlstra

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