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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	paulmck@us.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	vatsa@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] latency tracer, 2.6.15-rc7
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:41:01 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060103141101.GC5075@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0601030524570.30559@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:28:15AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> 
> >I do agree that the two layers of batching really makes things
> >subtle. I think the best we can do is to figure out some way of
> >automatic throttling in RCU and forced quiescent state under extreme
> >conditions. That way we will have less dependency on softirq
> >throttling.
> 
> would it make sense to have the RCU subsystems with a threshold so that 
> when more then X items are outstanding they trigger a premption of all 
> other CPU's ASAP (forceing the scheduling break needed to make progress on 
> clearing RCU)? This wouldn't work in all cases, but it could significantly 
> reduce the problem situations.

Yes, I think it would make sense to try something like that. See Paul's earlier
mail in this thread for an example code snippet.

Thanks
Dipankar

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-03 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-27 23:31 2.6.15-rc5: latency regression vs 2.6.14 in exit_mmap->free_pgtables Lee Revell
2005-12-28  2:46 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-28 22:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-29  0:00   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-29  8:22     ` [patch] latency tracer, 2.6.15-rc7 Ingo Molnar
2005-12-29 10:02       ` Dave Jones
2005-12-29 10:17         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-29 20:11           ` Lee Revell
2005-12-29 20:26             ` Lee Revell
2005-12-29 20:28               ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-29 22:18                 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-30  0:08                 ` Grant Coady
2005-12-30  0:18                   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-30  0:42                     ` Grant Coady
2005-12-30  8:09                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-30 16:51                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-02 20:14                       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-19  1:49                         ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19  6:17                           ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  0:20                     ` Grant Coady
2005-12-30  2:16                 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-30  8:00                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-30 18:51                     ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  0:51                     ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  0:59                       ` Mark Knecht
2005-12-31  1:16                         ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  1:30                         ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  1:02                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-31  1:15                         ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  1:39                           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-31  3:54                             ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  4:00                             ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31  4:29                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-12-31  4:54                                 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31 20:14                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-01  5:46                                     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-01 18:56                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-01 19:02                                         ` Lee Revell
2006-01-01 19:06                                           ` Lee Revell
2006-01-03 11:12                                         ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-03 13:28                                           ` David Lang
2006-01-03 14:11                                             ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2006-01-03 14:09                                     ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-03 15:55                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-12-31  4:48                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-01  8:32                           ` Lee Revell
2006-01-06 20:28       ` Lee Revell
2005-12-29  0:54   ` 2.6.15-rc5: latency regression vs 2.6.14 in exit_mmap->free_pgtables Lee Revell
2006-01-19  1:42   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19  7:29     ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-19  7:32       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19  7:35       ` Lee Revell

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