From: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, ganzinger@mvista.com,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RCU question
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:22:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BA59F6.5010309@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412101558240.24986@montezuma.fsmlabs.com>
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, George Anzinger wrote:
>
>
>>>Well, softirqs should really be preemptible if you care about RT task
>>>latency. Ingo's patches have had this for months. Works great. Maybe
>>>it's time to push it upstream.
>>
>>Yes, I understand, and soft_irq() does turn on interrupts...
>>I was thinking of something like:
>>
>> while(softirq_pending()) {
>> local_irq_enable();
>> do_softirq();
>> local_irq_disable();
>> }
>> <proceed to idle hlt...>
>
>
> But that's a deadlock and if you enable interrupts you race.
Again, I remind you we are in the idle task. Nothing more important to do. Or
do you mean that softirq_pending() will NEVER return false?
The other question is: "Is useful work being done?"
--
George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-11 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-09 23:59 RCU question George Anzinger
2004-12-10 4:31 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-12-10 19:42 ` George Anzinger
2004-12-10 20:40 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-12-10 20:45 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-10 21:02 ` George Anzinger
2004-12-10 22:58 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-11 2:22 ` George Anzinger [this message]
2004-12-11 2:45 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-11 3:29 ` George Anzinger
2004-12-11 14:52 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-11 16:32 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-11 16:52 ` George Anzinger
2004-12-12 2:53 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-12 8:59 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-12 9:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-12 10:22 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-12 12:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 21:40 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-14 22:23 ` [patch, 2.6.10-rc3] safe_hlt() & NMIs Ingo Molnar
2004-12-14 22:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-14 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-15 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-15 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-15 16:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-16 0:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-16 1:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-16 14:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-16 15:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-12-16 15:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-16 15:42 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-12-16 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-16 2:10 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-16 13:26 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-14 23:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-14 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-12-15 5:04 ` Andi Kleen
2004-12-15 6:27 ` Avi Kivity
2004-12-15 8:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-12 16:51 ` RCU question George Anzinger
2004-12-12 22:40 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-13 5:22 ` George Anzinger
2004-12-12 16:26 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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