linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:01:51 +0200
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, mhillenb@...zon.de,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent_qs
 requested

On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 08:36 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And I finally did get some near misses from an earlier commit, so we
> should consider your patch to be officially off the hook.

Yay, I like it when it's not my fault. I'll redo it with the ifdef
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL.

What should it do for the !CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL case? The existing call in
guest_enter_irqoff() clearly wasn't actually doing the right thing
anyway, hence the need for the need_resched() patch in $SUBJECT... so
should I just leave it doing nothing in guest_enter_irqoff()? 
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