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From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Connor O'Brien <connoro@google.com>,
	John Dias <joaodias@google.com>, Rick Yiu <rickyiu@google.com>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>,
	Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>,
	Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@quicinc.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	kernel-team@android.com, "J . Avila" <elavila@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v4 2/3] sched: Avoid placing RT threads on cores handling long softirqs
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 18:34:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y1Q3vYjlFt/Imu5w@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y1FDegctcU2LrYGT@li-4a3a4a4c-28e5-11b2-a85c-a8d192c6f089.ibm.com>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 02:47:54PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 03:09:15PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> [...]
> 
> > So I'll go ahead and simplify the check to just the LONG_SOFTIRQ_MASK
> > & (active | pending softirqs) check. This should avoid the need to
> > pull the cpu_rq(cpu)->curr value and simplify things.
> 
> In my reading of your approach if you find a way to additionally
> indicate long softirqs being handled by the remote ksoftirqd, it
> would cover all obvious/not-corner cases.

How will that help? The long softirq executing inside ksoftirqd will disable
preemption and prevent any RT task from executing.

Did I miss something?

thanks,

 - Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-22 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-03 23:20 [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Softirq -rt Optimizations John Stultz
2022-10-03 23:20 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/3] softirq: Add generic accessor to percpu softirq_pending data John Stultz
2022-10-03 23:20 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/3] sched: Avoid placing RT threads on cores handling long softirqs John Stultz
     [not found]   ` <20221004013611.1822-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-10-04  2:29     ` John Stultz
     [not found]       ` <20221005002149.1876-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-10-05  1:13         ` John Stultz
     [not found]         ` <20221005060155.1571-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-10-10 15:42           ` Qais Yousef
     [not found]             ` <20221011111846.284-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-10-12 14:10               ` Qais Yousef
2022-10-17 12:40   ` [PATCH RFC " Alexander Gordeev
2022-10-18  3:42     ` John Stultz
2022-10-18  3:59       ` John Stultz
2022-10-18  5:32       ` John Stultz
2022-10-19  9:11       ` Alexander Gordeev
2022-10-19 22:09         ` John Stultz
2022-10-20  0:15           ` Qais Yousef
2022-10-20 12:47           ` Alexander Gordeev
2022-10-22 18:34             ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2022-10-23  7:45               ` Alexander Gordeev
2022-11-15  7:08                 ` John Stultz
2022-11-15 12:55                   ` Alexander Gordeev
2022-10-19 11:23       ` Qais Yousef
2022-10-22 18:28   ` [RFC PATCH " Joel Fernandes
2022-11-15 21:36     ` John Stultz
2022-10-03 23:20 ` [RFC PATCH v4 3/3] softirq: defer softirq processing to ksoftirqd if CPU is busy with RT John Stultz
2022-10-04 10:45   ` David Laight
2022-10-04 19:19     ` John Stultz
2022-10-10 16:09   ` Qais Yousef
2022-10-17 14:44     ` Qais Yousef
2022-10-18  0:04       ` John Stultz
2022-10-19 11:01         ` Qais Yousef

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