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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: cmetcalf@ezchip.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] tile: support arch_irq_work_raise
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:14:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324211406.GB27490@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427224895-30830-2-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 03:21:32PM -0400, cmetcalf@ezchip.com wrote:
> From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
> 
> Tile includes a hypervisor hook to deliver messages to arbitrary
> tiles, so we can use that to raise an interrupt as soon as
> possible on our own core.  Unfortunately the Tilera hypervisor
> disabled that support on principle in previous releases, but
> it will be available in MDE 4.3.4 and later.

Can you program a timer in the (recent) past which will instantly
trigger an interrupt? This is what PPC64 does to implement the self-ipi.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-24 19:21 [PATCH 0/4] initial NOHZ_FULL support for tile cmetcalf
2015-03-24 19:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] tile: support arch_irq_work_raise cmetcalf
2015-03-24 21:00   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-03-24 21:14   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-03-24 22:06     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-03-25  8:03       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-24 19:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] tile: support CONTEXT_TRACKING and thus NOHZ_FULL cmetcalf
2015-03-24 21:15   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-03-24 21:49     ` Chris Metcalf
2015-03-24 19:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] nohz: add tick_nohz_full_clear_cpus() API cmetcalf
2015-03-30 16:20   ` Chris Metcalf
2015-03-30 16:41     ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-30 16:45       ` Chris Metcalf
2015-03-24 19:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: tile: don't send interrupts to nohz cores by default cmetcalf

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