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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: don't try to balance rt_runtime when it is futile
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 08:58:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140518155815.GK4570@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400402201.5166.13.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:36:41AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 22:20 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > If you are saying that turning on nohz_full doesn't help unless you
> > also ensure that there is only one runnable task per CPU, I completely
> > agree.  If you are saying something else, you lost me.  ;-)
> 
> Yup, that's it more or less.  It's not only single task loads that could
> benefit from better isolation, but if isolation improving measures are
> tied to nohz_full, other sensitive loads will suffer if they try to use
> isolation improvements.

So you are arguing for a separate Kconfig variable that does the isolation?
So that NO_HZ_FULL selects this new variable, and (for example) RCU
uses this new variable to decide when to pin the grace-period kthreads
onto the housekeeping CPU?

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-18 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-14 15:08 [PATCH] sched/rt: don't try to balance rt_runtime when it is futile Paul Gortmaker
2014-05-14 15:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-14 19:11   ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-05-14 19:27     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-15  2:49     ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-15 14:09       ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-11-27  9:17       ` Wanpeng Li
2014-11-27 15:31         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-11-27 11:36     ` Wanpeng Li
2014-05-15  3:18   ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-15 14:45     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-15 17:27       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-18  4:22     ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-18  5:20       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-18  8:36         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-18 15:58           ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-05-19  2:44             ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-19  5:34               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-20 14:53                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-05-20 15:53                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-20 16:24                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-05-20 16:36                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-20 17:20                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-21  4:29                         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-21  4:18                     ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-21 12:03                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-21  3:52                   ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-19 10:54     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-19 12:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-22 19:40   ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-11-27 11:21 ` Wanpeng Li

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