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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86-64: software IRQ masking and handling
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:49:57 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007121149.58129.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik8EHarsrnAisuj9SKbeXddlA6Dz-KzDOPsmBxh@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:59:48 am Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > I just got it working and it behaves pretty good on qemu.  Actual
> > machines can't idle but seem to work otherwise.  I'll fix up idle, get
> > paravirt working and try to get some perf measurements but I'll be
> > mostly off next week, so it will take some time.  In the meantime,
> > what do you guys think?
> 
> You need to show some real improvement on real hardware.

Also, is it worth trying to implement this soft disable generically?
I know at least ppc64 does it today...

(Y'know, because your initial patch wasn't ambitious enough...)

It might reduce the use of NMIs.  But maybe not.

Cheers,
Rusty.
PS.  When did we start top-commenting and quoting the whole patch?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-12  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-11 18:01 [RFC PATCH] x86-64: software IRQ masking and handling Tejun Heo
2010-07-11 19:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-07-11 20:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-11 22:03   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-07-12  1:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12  5:11       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-12  8:02         ` Rusty Russell
2010-07-12  7:41       ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-12  2:19   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2010-07-12  2:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-12  7:45     ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-12  7:35   ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-12 13:55     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-03 21:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-04  2:09   ` Rusty Russell

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