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From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
To: Venki Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Extend mwait idle to optimize away IPIs when possible
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:34:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120213053410.GB24636@zhy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABeCy1aUj9MM8YabvvQCYYFm4FNMsomU3PZ1ZyoKikL9hnc9uQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 06:11:58PM -0800, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 12:42 -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> >> smp_call_function_single and ttwu_queue_remote sends unconditional IPI
> >> to target CPU. However, if the target CPU is in mwait based idle, we can
> >> do IPI-less wakeups using the magical powers of monitor-mwait.
> >
> > So I was thinking, why not change native_smp_send_reschedule() and
> > native_send_call_func_single_ipi() and keep the change entirely inside
> > the arch?
> >
> > Ideally its only APIC/idle that know about this detail, the scheduler
> > (or other consumers) really don't care about how the other cpu comes to
> > run the callback.
> >
> 
> OK. Moving most of this into arch code will be cleaner. But, Yong
> mentioned in this thread that he was looking to do something similar
> on MIPS. So, we may end up with some code duplication though..

Yeah, most of the things could be shared. Such as the added logic when
return from idle and the hooks into ttwu_queue_remote() and
generic_exec_single().

BTW, I think we should also let the arch provide a wrapper for
TIF_IPI_PENDING, such as tsk_ipi_pending().

Thanks,
Yong
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-06 20:42 [RFC] Extend mwait idle to optimize away IPIs when possible Venkatesh Pallipadi
2012-02-06 21:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-06 21:26   ` Venki Pallipadi
2012-02-07  0:26 ` David Daney
2012-02-07  1:24   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-07  1:34     ` David Daney
2012-02-07  1:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-07  2:03         ` Venki Pallipadi
2012-02-07  2:24 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-02-07 21:39   ` Venki Pallipadi
2012-02-08  6:51 ` Yong Zhang
2012-02-08 23:28   ` Venki Pallipadi
2012-02-09  2:18     ` Yong Zhang
2012-02-10  2:17       ` Venki Pallipadi
2012-02-13  5:27         ` Yong Zhang
2012-02-10 19:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-11  2:11   ` Venki Pallipadi
2012-02-11  3:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-13  5:34     ` Yong Zhang [this message]
2012-02-14 13:52       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-15  1:39         ` Yong Zhang
2012-02-15  2:32         ` Venki Pallipadi

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