From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, josh@joshtriplett.org,
peterz@infradead.org, oleg@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL timers] Timer-wheel bandaids^Wcommits for 3.15
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:10:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140228161037.GB11910@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393563998.6018.19.camel@marge.simpson.net>
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 06:06:38AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 17:27 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello, Thomas and Ingo,
> >
> > This pull request contains latency bandaids^Woptimizations to the
> > timer-wheel code that are useful in conjunction with NO_HZ_FULL Kconfig
> > option. These optimizations reduce the jiffy-by-jiffy looping in cases
> > where there is either zero or one timers in the timer wheel, which is
> > a common case for NO_HZ_FULL "worker" CPUs that run almost entirely
> > in usermode for a single task.
>
> FWIW, these have seen quite a bit of runtime on various boxen, both in
> day to day and piddle about -rt kernels, with zero attention grabbers.
Thank you very much for your testing efforts, Mike!
Thanx, Paul
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-28 1:27 [GIT PULL timers] Timer-wheel bandaids^Wcommits for 3.15 Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-28 5:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-02-28 16:10 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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