From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>, John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>,
Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
elsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
CKRM-Tech <ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, Erik Jacobson <erikj@sgi.com>,
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [ckrm-tech] Re: [PATCH 00/01] Move Exit Connectors
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:29:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060118062943.GC10765@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137552907.3587.49.camel@mindpipe>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:55:06PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:49 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > - * softirq handlers will have completed, since in some kernels
> > + * softirq handlers will have completed, since in some kernels, these
> > + * handlers can run in process context, and can block.
> > *
>
> I was under the impression that softirq handlers can run in process
> context in all kernels. Specifically, in realtime variants softirqs
> always run in process context, and in mainline this only happens under
> high load.
We might be talking past each other on this one. If I am not getting
too confused, it is possible to configure a mainline kernel so that
the load cannot rise high enough to force softirqs into process
context. Although looking at 2.6.15, it appears that this would
require rebuilding after hand-editing the value of MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART,
which some might feel too-brutal of tweaking to be considered mere
"configuration".
In any case, the key point of the comment is that synchronize_sched()
is not guaranteed to wait for all pending softirq handlers to complete.
Does the comment make that sufficiently clear?
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-18 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-03 23:16 [Patch 0/6] Per-task delay accounting Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:23 ` [Patch 1/6] Delay accounting: timespec diff Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:26 ` [Patch 2/6] Delay accounting: Initialization, kernel boot option Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:28 ` [Patch 3/6] Delay accounting: Sync block I/O delays Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:30 ` [Patch 4/6] Delay accounting: Swap in delays Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:31 ` [Patch 5/6] Delay accounting: /proc interface Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-03 23:33 ` [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04 0:21 ` Greg KH
2006-01-04 0:42 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04 0:51 ` Greg KH
2006-01-04 7:49 ` [Lse-tech] " Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04 19:04 ` Jay Lan
2006-01-04 21:31 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-04 22:40 ` [ckrm-tech] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-04 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-05 18:42 ` [PATCH 00/01] Move Exit Connectors Matt Helsley
2006-01-05 19:17 ` [PATCH 01/01][RFC] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-05 19:20 ` [PATCH 00/01] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-05 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-06 0:06 ` [ckrm-tech] " Matt Helsley
2006-01-06 8:57 ` [Lse-tech] " Jes Sorensen
2006-01-06 16:45 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-01-11 10:36 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-11 12:56 ` John Hesterberg
2006-01-11 13:50 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-11 21:02 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-11 21:39 ` John Hesterberg
2006-01-11 22:42 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12 10:01 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-12 23:20 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-13 9:35 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-14 7:23 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12 3:29 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12 5:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-12 5:38 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12 6:19 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12 6:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-12 7:50 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12 15:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-17 17:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-17 23:57 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-18 2:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-18 2:55 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-18 6:29 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2006-01-12 5:26 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12 5:45 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-12 9:51 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-12 23:01 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-13 9:59 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-13 10:38 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-13 23:22 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-12 23:49 ` Matt Helsley
2006-01-05 0:01 ` [ckrm-tech] Re: [Patch 6/6] Delay accounting: Connector interface Shailabh Nagar
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