From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Rafael David Tinoco <inaddy@ubuntu.com>,
Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano@canonical.com>,
Christopher Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: smp_call_function_single lockups
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:37:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150222103709.GA24818@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54E99A8F.1080803@numascale.com>
* Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com> wrote:
> The Intel SDM [1] and AMD F15h BKDG [2] state that IPIs
> are queued, so the wait_icr_idle() polling is only
> necessary on PPro and older, and maybe then to avoid
> delivery retry. This unnecessarily ties up the IPI
> caller, so we bypass the polling in the Numachip APIC
> driver IPI-to-self path.
It would be nice to propagate this back to the generic x86
code.
> On Linus's earlier point, with the large core counts on
> Numascale systems, I previously implemented a shortcut to
> allow single IPIs to bypass all the cpumask generation
> and walking; it's way down on my list, but I'll see if I
> can generalise and present a patch series at some point
> if interested?
I am definitely interested!
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-22 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-22 8:59 smp_call_function_single lockups Daniel J Blueman
2015-02-22 10:37 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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2015-02-11 13:19 Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-11 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-11 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-11 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-12 16:38 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-18 22:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-19 15:42 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-23 14:01 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-23 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-23 20:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-23 21:02 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 16:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-19 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 16:32 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 17:30 ` Rafael David Tinoco
2015-02-19 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 20:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-19 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31 3:15 ` Chris J Arges
2015-03-31 4:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31 4:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-31 22:23 ` Chris J Arges
2015-03-31 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-01 14:32 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-01 15:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-02 9:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-01 12:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-01 16:10 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-01 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-01 21:59 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-02 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-02 18:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 18:51 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-02 19:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-02 21:13 ` Chris J Arges
2015-04-03 5:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-06 17:23 ` Chris J Arges
2015-02-20 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-20 19:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-20 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-20 20:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-20 10:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-20 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-03-20 17:14 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-04-01 14:22 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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