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From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stop_machine: disable preempt in stop machine path
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:23:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB18F8C.1060104@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090916160358.7faadb5f.akpm@linux-foundation.org>



Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:26:54 +0800
> Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> We can disable preempt in stop_cpu(), It can reduce the cpu's waiting time
>> and make stop_machine path faster.
>>
> 
> "it can"?  But does it?  Are there any measurements or observations to
> back this up?
> 
> The kstop threads are already created with create_rt_workqueue() (which
> has super-secret undocumented semantics which I have cleverly
> discovered mean "use SCHED_FIFO").
> 

Ah, indeed, please ignore this mail, sorry for bother you all.

Thanks,
Xiao

> So we won't be getting preempted here anyway?
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-17  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-16  7:26 [PATCH] stop_machine: disable preempt in stop machine path Xiao Guangrong
2009-09-16 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-17  1:23   ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2009-09-22  5:50 ` Rusty Russell

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