Re: [patch 00/12] rseq: Implement time slice extension mechanism

K Prateek Nayak
2025-09-11T03:03:56Z

Hello Thomas,

On 9/10/2025 8:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10 2025 at 16:58, K. Prateek Nayak wrote:
>> On 9/9/2025 4:29 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> For your convenience all of it is also available as a conglomerate from
>>> git:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git rseq/slice
>>
>> Apart from a couple of nit picks, I couldn't spot anything out of place
>> and the overall approach looks solid. Please feel free to include:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
>
> Thanks a lot for going through it and testing.
>
> Do you have a real workload or a mockup at hand, which benefits
> from that slice extension functionality?

Not at the moment but we did have some interest for this feature
internally. Give me a week and I'll let you know if they had found a
use-case / have a prototype to test this.

In the meantime, Prakash should have a test bench that he used to
test his early RFC
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241113000126.967713-1-prakash.sangappa@oracle.com/

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Thanks and Regards,
Prateek