linux-kernel - Re: + sched-use-tasklet-to-call-balancing.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611071015030.4249@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:18:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, akpm@...l.org,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + sched-use-tasklet-to-call-balancing.patch added to -mm tree

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

> tasklet_schedule doesn't schedule if there is already one scheduled.

Right. 

/* Tasklets --- multithreaded analogue of BHs.

   Main feature differing them of generic softirqs: tasklet
   is running only on one CPU simultaneously.

   Main feature differing them of BHs: different tasklets
   may be run simultaneously on different CPUs.

   Properties:
   * If tasklet_schedule() is called, then tasklet is guaranteed
     to be executed on some cpu at least once after this.

^^^^ Crap. Not equivalent. Must be guaranteed to run on the same cpu.

   * If the tasklet is already scheduled, but its excecution is still not
     started, it will be executed only once.
   * If this tasklet is already running on another CPU (or schedule is called
     from tasklet itself), it is rescheduled for later.
   * Tasklet is strictly serialized wrt itself, but not
     wrt another tasklets. If client needs some intertask synchronization,
     he makes it with spinlocks.
 */

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