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McKenney" To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, joel@joelfernandes.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 14/14] rcu/nohz: Make multi_cpu_stop() enable tick on all online CPUs Message-ID: <20190805174800.GK28441@linux.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.ibm.com References: <20190802151435.GA1081@linux.ibm.com> <20190802151501.13069-14-paulmck@linux.ibm.com> <20190804144317.GF2349@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20190804144835.GB2386@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20190804184159.GC28441@linux.ibm.com> <20190805080531.GH2349@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20190805145448.GI28441@linux.ibm.com> <20190805155024.GK2332@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190805155024.GK2332@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2019-08-05_09:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1906280000 definitions=main-1908050187 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 05:50:24PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 07:54:48AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > Right; so clearly we're not understanding what's happening. That seems > > > like a requirement for actually doing a patch. > > > > Almost but not quite. It is a requirement for a patch *that* *is* > > *supposed* *to* *be* *a* *fix*. If you are trying to prohibit me from > > writing experimental patches, please feel free to take a long walk on > > a short pier. > > > > Understood??? > > Ah, my bad, I thought you were actually proposing this as an actual > patch. I now see that is my bad, I'd overlooked the RFC part. No problem! And of course adding tracing decreases the frequency and duration of the multi_cpu_stop(). Re-running with shorter-duration triggering. ;-) Thanx, Paul