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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	pstaszewski@itcare.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dst: call cond_resched() in dst_gc_task()
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:35:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100208223540.3cdabe44.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265695598.4236.95.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:06:38 +0100 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> After this patch, I believe that scheduler is allowed to migrate
> dst_gc_task() to an idle cpu.

No, keventd threads are each pinned to a single CPU (kthread_bind() in
start_workqueue_thread()), so dst_gc_task() gets run on the CPU which
ran schedule_delayed_work() and no other.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-08 13:16 Problem wit route cache Paweł Staszewski
2010-02-08 13:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-08 13:33   ` Paweł Staszewski
2010-02-08 13:51     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-08 13:59       ` Paweł Staszewski
2010-02-08 14:06         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-08 14:16           ` Paweł Staszewski
2010-02-08 14:32             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-08 19:32               ` [PATCH] dst: call cond_resched() in dst_gc_task() Eric Dumazet
2010-02-08 23:01                 ` David Miller
2010-02-09  6:07                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-08 23:26                 ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-08 23:34                   ` David Miller
2010-02-08 23:37                     ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-08 23:50                       ` David Miller
2010-02-08 23:50                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-09  6:06                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-09  6:35                           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-02-09  7:20                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-09  7:31                               ` Andrew Morton
2010-02-08 14:32             ` Problem wit route cache Paweł Staszewski
2010-02-08 14:45               ` Paweł Staszewski

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