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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:core/rcu] Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof"
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:13:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110526061348.GA26775@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110526013029.GA28103@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
> 
> Upon creation, kthreads are in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, which can
> result in softlockup warnings.  Because some of RCU's kthreads can
> legitimately be idle indefinitely, start them in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
> state in order to avoid those warnings.
> 
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

this should also solve load average artifacts - do not 
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks skew the load upwards?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-26  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-80d02085d99039b3b7f3a73c8896226b0cb1ba07@git.kernel.org>
2011-05-20 21:04 ` [tip:core/rcu] Revert "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof" Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20 22:42   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-20 23:09     ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20 23:14       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-20 23:16         ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-20 23:49           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-21  0:02             ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-21 13:18               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-21 14:08                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-23 20:14                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-23 21:25                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-23 22:01                       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-23 22:55                         ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-23 22:58                           ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-24  1:18                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-24  1:26                               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-24  1:35                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-24 21:23                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25  0:05                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25  0:13                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25  4:46                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25  7:24                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 20:48                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25  7:18                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25  0:16                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25  0:10                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25  4:52                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25  7:27                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 20:47                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 20:52                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-25 22:15                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-25 22:34                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-25 22:49                                             ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-26  1:13                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26  1:30                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26  6:13                                                   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-05-26 14:25                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26 17:43                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-26 20:26                                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-26 15:08                                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-26 16:28                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-28  1:04                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-28  4:03                                                         ` Yinghai Lu
2011-05-28  6:38                                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-05-24  1:12                         ` Paul E. McKenney

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