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From: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
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Cc: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: might_sleep(): do rate-limiting before sanity checks
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:36:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <558B7746.9010605@sr71.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150625000354.255E7263@viggo.jf.intel.com>

On 06/24/2015 05:03 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> In any case, we ratelimit might_sleep() checks anyway.  But, we
> do the ratelimiting *after* we check the other conditions for
> might_sleep() including the (costly) irqs_disabled() call.

Thinking about this a bit more, this patch is wrong.

This only does a _check_ once per jiffy instead of just one warning per
jiffy, which is totally bogus.

I would be interested, though, if anybody has any ideas about speeding
up the irqs_disabled() checking.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-25  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-25  0:03 [RFC][PATCH] sched: might_sleep(): do rate-limiting before sanity checks Dave Hansen
2015-06-25  3:36 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2015-06-25  7:43   ` Peter Zijlstra

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