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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, josh@joshtriplett.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	jiangshanlai@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Avoid _cond_resched() for PREEMPT=y
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:42:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160922184228.GA5012@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1609221421290.12217@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:25:01PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> I've found a document that says that cond_resched() is needed on
> preemptible kernels to mark RCU quiescent states:
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/603252/
> 
> Paul, is cond_resched() still needed on current RCU implementation? Or not?

No, we ripped that out. See 4a81e8328d37 ("rcu: Reduce overhead of
cond_resched() checks for RCU")

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-22 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-35a773a07926a22bf19d77ee00024522279c4e68@git.kernel.org>
2016-09-22 18:25 ` [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Avoid _cond_resched() for PREEMPT=y Mikulas Patocka
2016-09-22 18:30   ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-09-22 18:42   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-09-22 20:28     ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-09-23  8:44       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-23 14:47         ` Paul E. McKenney

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