Re: [RFC] sched_tick with interrupts enabled

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>After that, it might be acceptable to call rebalance_tick from a tasklet,
>>although it would be uneeded overhead on small systems. It might be better
> 
> 
> Here is a patch that only runs rebalance tick from a tasklet in the 
> scheduler. For UP there will be no tasklet.
> 
> [RFC] sched_rebalance_tick with interrupts enabled
> 
> scheduler_tick() has the potential of running for some time if f.e.
> sched_domains for a system with 1024 processors have to be balanced.
> We currently do all of that with interrupts disabled. So we may be unable
> to service interrupts for some time. Most of that time is potentially
> spend in rebalance_tick.
> 
> This patch splits off rebalance_tick from scheduler_tick and schedules
> it via a tasklet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

wake_priority_sleeper should not be called from rebalance_tick. That
code was OK where it was before, I think.

And you need to now turn off interrupts when doing the locking in
load_balance.

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