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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] sched: fix the PREEMPT_ACTIVE check in __trace_sched_switch_state()
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:00:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141008080016.GB10832@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141007195046.GA28002@redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:50:46PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> And note that another caller of task_preempt_count(), set_cpu(), is
> fine but it doesn't really need this helper.
> 
> And afaics we do not need ->saved_preempt_count at all, the trivial
> patch below makes it unnecessary, we can kill it and all its users.
> 
> Not only this will simplify the code, this will make (well, almost)
> the per-cpu preempt counter arch-agnostic.
> 
> Or I missed something?

Two things, per-cpu isn't always faster on some archs, and load-store
archs have problems with PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED, although arguably you can
do per-cpu preempt count without that.

> Do you think this makes sense? If yes, I'll try to make the patches.

It penalizes everything but x86 I think. There is no other arch that has
per-cpu preempt count atm.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-08  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07 19:50 [PATCH 0/1] sched: fix the PREEMPT_ACTIVE check in __trace_sched_switch_state() Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-07 19:51 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-10  9:54   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-10  9:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-28 11:05   ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-08  8:00 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-10-08 18:33   ` [PATCH 0/2] (Was: sched: fix the PREEMPT_ACTIVE check in __trace_sched_switch_state()) Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-08 18:33     ` [PATCH 1/2] sched: schedule_tail() should disable preemption Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-08 19:36       ` [PATCH v2 " Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-08 21:37         ` Kirill Tkhai
2014-10-09 14:57           ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-09 15:17             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-09 16:57               ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-09 17:28                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-09 17:32                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-09 17:55                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-28 11:06         ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix schedule_tail() to " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-08 18:33     ` [PATCH 2/2] sched: kill task_preempt_count() Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-28 11:06       ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Kill task_preempt_count() tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-09 19:32 ` [PATCH 0/1] sched: make finish_task_switch() return struct rq * Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-09 19:32   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-10 10:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-10 17:06       ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-10 20:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-14 17:57           ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-28 11:06     ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Make finish_task_switch() return ' struct rq *' tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov

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