From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: CFS low-latency features
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:57:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100827195751.GA1030@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282936994.1975.3119.camel@laptop>
* Peter Zijlstra (peterz@infradead.org) wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 14:32 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >
> > These are problems you get only when you allow spawning any number of threads.
> > If, instead, you create a thread pool at timer creation, then you can allow
> > concurrency without problems with spawner context and error proparation.
>
> That would be a massive resource waste for the normal case where the
> interval > handler runtime.
Not if the application can configure this value. So the "normal" case could be
set to 1 single thread. Only resource-intensive apps would set this differently,
e.g. to the detected number of cpus.
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-27 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-26 18:09 [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: CFS low-latency features Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] sched: fix string comparison in features Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] sched: debug spread check account for nr_running Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] sched: FAIR_SLEEPERS feature Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] sched: debug cleanup place entity Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] sched buddy enable buddy logic starting at 2 running threads Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] sched: dynamic min_vruntime Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] sched rename struct task in_iowait field to sched_in_iowait Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] sched input interactivity-driven next buddy Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] sched: timer-driven " Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 18:02 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] sched: timer-driven next buddy (update) Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 18:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] sched: fork expedited Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] sched: fair sleepers for timer and interactive Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 18:57 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] sched: CFS low-latency features Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-26 21:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-26 22:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-26 23:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 23:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 7:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 15:23 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 8:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-27 15:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 7:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 15:21 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 15:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 16:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 17:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 18:32 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 19:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 19:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2010-08-31 15:02 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 23:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 23:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-26 23:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-26 23:53 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 0:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-27 15:18 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 15:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-08-27 15:30 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 15:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-26 23:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 7:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 8:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-08-27 15:43 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-27 18:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-28 7:33 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-08-27 10:47 ` Indan Zupancic
2010-08-27 10:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
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