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From: Hemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
	Bhaumik Bhatt <bbhatt@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, jhugo@codeaurora.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, loic.poulain@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus: mhi: core: Disable pre-emption for data events tasklet processing
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:54:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1624298053.10055.18.camel@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210619074442.GC4889@workstation>

On Sat, 2021-06-19 at 13:14 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 03:23:05PM -0700, Bhaumik Bhatt wrote:
> > 
> > With spin_lock_bh(), it is possible that a tasklet processing data
> > events gets scheduled out if another higher priority tasklet is
Needs some re-wording. What we observed was threded irq storms and in
the past we observed some RT tasks preempting MHI tasklet for long
time.
> > ready to run. While the tasklet is sleeping, it can hold the event
Not allowed to sleep in tasklet context.
> > ring spinlock and block another tasklet, for example, one
> > processing
> > an M0 state change event, from acquiring it. This can starve the
> > core which blocks in an attempt to acquire the spinlock until it
> > gets released. Fix this issue by disabling pre-emption on the core
> > processing data events and allow it to run to completion such that
> > other tasklets do not block for long periods.
> > 
> Are you sure?
> 
> IIUC, the tasklets priority is only used while trying to schedule the
> next pending tasklet. But I don't think a high priority tasklet can
> preempt the low priority one.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-21 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-18 22:23 [PATCH] bus: mhi: core: Disable pre-emption for data events tasklet processing Bhaumik Bhatt
2021-06-19  7:44 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
2021-06-21 17:54   ` Hemant Kumar [this message]

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