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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] sched: Account rr and fifo tasks separately
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:16:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151202141655.GE14766@lerouge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151202125339.GE9928@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:53:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 03:22:06PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > In order to evaluate tick dependency, we need to account SCHED_RR and
> > SCHED_FIFO tasks separately as those policies don't have the same
> > preemption requirements.
> > 
> > We still keep rt_nr_running as a cache to avoid additions between nr_rr
> > and nr_fifo all over the place.
> 
> In which case you only need one of nr_fifo/nr_rr. Less accounting is
> better.
> 
> Pick the one you need for the nohz_full condition, and leave the other.
> A quick look at sched_can_stop_tick() seems to suggest nr_rr is the
> interesting one. nr_rr < 2 should allow stopping the tick.

Sounds pretty good! I'm going to do that!

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-02 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-13 14:22 [PATCH 0/7] nohz: Tick dependency mask v3 Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-13 14:22 ` [PATCH 1/7] atomic: Export fetch_or() Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-24 15:58   ` Chris Metcalf
2015-11-24 21:19     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-24 21:48       ` Chris Metcalf
2015-11-30 17:36         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-30 18:17           ` Chris Metcalf
2015-11-25  9:13       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-13 14:22 ` [PATCH 2/7] nohz: New tick dependency mask Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-24 16:19   ` Chris Metcalf
2015-11-25 11:32     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-01 20:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-01 22:20     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-02 10:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-02 14:08         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-02 15:09           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-08 15:57             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-02 12:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-02 14:10         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-02 12:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-02 14:11         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-13 14:22 ` [PATCH 3/7] perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-24 16:19   ` Chris Metcalf
2015-11-25 12:34     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-02 16:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-02 17:03         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-02 17:15           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-13 14:22 ` [PATCH 4/7] sched: Account rr and fifo tasks separately Frederic Weisbecker
2015-12-02 12:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-02 14:16     ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2015-11-13 14:22 ` [PATCH 5/7] sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-13 14:22 ` [PATCH 6/7] posix-cpu-timers: Migrate " Frederic Weisbecker
2015-11-13 14:22 ` [PATCH 7/7] sched-clock: " Frederic Weisbecker

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