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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Too many rescheduling interrupts (still!)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:15:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140212181517.GE27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140212174637.GC5496@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:46:39PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Ok but if the target is idle, dynticks and not polling, we don't have the choice
> but to send an IPI, right? I'm talking about this kind of case.

Yes; but Andy doesn't seem concerned with such hardware (!x86).

Anything x86 (except ancient stuff) is effectively polling and wakes up
from the TIF_NEED_RESCHED write.


      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-11 20:23 Too many rescheduling interrupts (still!) Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-11 21:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-11 22:34   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-12 10:13     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-12 15:49       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-12 16:39         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-12 18:19           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-12 20:17             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-13  1:40               ` [RFC] sched: Add a new lockless wake-from-idle implementation Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-13  9:38                 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-02-13 14:49                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-02-13 14:50                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-13 17:07                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-13 20:16                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-13 20:35                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-13 19:58                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-14  1:38                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-14 20:01                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-14 20:17                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-14 21:19                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-12 15:59       ` Too many rescheduling interrupts (still!) Frederic Weisbecker
2014-02-12 16:43         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-12 17:46           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-02-12 18:15             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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