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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Idle balancer: cache align nohz structure to improve idle load balancing scalability
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:24:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111102135414.GC6820@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320191558.28097.44.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com>

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> [2011-11-01 16:52:38]:

> +	/*
> +	 * We were recently in tickless idle mode. We will do the delayed
> +	 * update of busy mode now (first busy tick after returning from idle).
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(rq->tick_stopped)) {
> +		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
> +
> +		if (cpumask_bits(nohz.idle_cpus_mask)[BIT_WORD(cpu)] == 0 &&
> +		    cpumask_empty(nohz.idle_cpus_mask))
> +			clear_bit(NOHZ_NEED_BALANCING, &nohz.bits);

Can't this clear_bit race with set_bit() in select_nohz_load_balancer()?

   CPU0				CPU1

cpumask_clear_cpu()
if ( ...)
				cpumask_set_cpu();
				set_bit();

	clear_bit();

?

- vatsa


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-02 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 21:45 [Patch] Idle balancer: cache align nohz structure to improve idle load balancing scalability Tim Chen
2011-10-20  4:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-20  5:57   ` Suresh Siddha
2011-10-20  6:43     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-20 17:19   ` Tim Chen
2011-10-20  4:24 ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-20 12:26   ` Venki Pallipadi
2011-10-20 17:31     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-10-20 17:38     ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]     ` <4FF5AC937153B0459463C1A88EB478F20135D6ECB5@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
2011-11-01 23:52       ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-02 13:04         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-11-02 13:54         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2011-11-02 15:13           ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-14  9:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-14 19:37           ` Suresh Siddha

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