From: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, dino@in.ibm.com,
masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cpu-hotplug: Using the Process Freezer (try2)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:11:23 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404104123.GA14825@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404100431.GB19120@elte.hu>
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:04:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> yeah, i think you are right - and the TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE thing is not
> only quite complex, it also breaks the symmetry of freezer use
> (sw-suspend obviously cannot freeze uninterruptible tasks). We should
> watch whether the current latency of freezing is good enough in
> practice.
Ok. Do you have any specific tests in mind which I can run and post the
numbers?
As of now, I've been stressing the system with (kernbench + ondemand governor)
and timing the hotplug operation.
>
> Ingo
Thanks and Regards
gautham.
--
Gautham R Shenoy
Linux Technology Center
IBM India.
"Freedom comes with a price tag of responsibility, which is still a bargain,
because Freedom is priceless!"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 5:34 [RFC] Cpu-hotplug: Using the Process Freezer (try2) Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 5:37 ` [PATCH 1/8] Enhance process freezer interface for usage beyond software suspend Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 13:56 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-02 20:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-02 20:51 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-06 14:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-06 22:20 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-07 9:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-07 9:47 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-09 3:04 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-03 7:59 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-05 9:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-05 10:59 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-05 11:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-02 5:37 ` [PATCH 2/8] Make process freezer reentrant Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-05 9:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-05 10:19 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 5:38 ` [PATCH 3/8] Use process freezer for cpu-hotplug Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-05 10:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-05 12:14 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-05 13:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-06 17:27 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-04-06 17:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-06 17:47 ` Nathan Lynch
2007-04-06 22:22 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-14 18:48 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-02 5:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] Rip out lock_cpu_hotplug() Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 5:40 ` [PATCH 5/8] __cpu_up: use singlethreaded workqueue Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-05 12:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-02 5:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] Make non-singlethreaded workqueues freezeable by default Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-05 11:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-05 20:06 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 5:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] Clean up workqueue.c with respect to the freezer based cpu-hotplug Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-03 11:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-03 13:59 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-03 15:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-03 17:18 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-04 15:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-04 17:49 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-05 12:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-12 2:22 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-12 10:01 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-12 16:00 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-13 9:46 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 5:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] Make kernel threads freezeable for cpu-hotplug Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 6:16 ` [RFC] Cpu-hotplug: Using the Process Freezer (try2) Ingo Molnar
2007-04-02 9:28 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-02 11:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-02 12:42 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-02 14:16 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 18:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-03 12:56 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-03 14:15 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-03 19:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-04 3:15 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2007-04-04 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-04 10:41 ` Gautham R Shenoy [this message]
2007-04-04 11:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-04 12:24 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 11:19 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-02 11:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-02 22:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-02 13:22 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-03 12:01 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-03 19:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-03 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 10:06 ` utrace merge Ingo Molnar
2007-04-04 10:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-04 18:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 14:01 ` [RFC] Cpu-hotplug: Using the Process Freezer (try2) Gautham R Shenoy
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