linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4 tip/sched/core] sched: rename preempt_notifier to sched

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Message-ID: <20091127054621.GA25672@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:46:21 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4 tip/sched/core] sched: rename preempt_notifier to
 sched_notifier and always enable it


* Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 11/27/2009 01:52 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Btw., longer term it will be faster than a mask check and a
> > default-untaken conditional: there's ongoign work to offer runtime
> > instruction patching features for tracing callbacks.  There's the
> > jump patching optimization and also the immediate values patching
> > optimization.
> 
> Scheduler callbacks won't benefit much from it.  There will always be 
> workqueues and thus conditional branch will always be necessary.

Other code will benefit from it though, such as the page fault callbacks 
i already mentioned.

My position on this is rather clear: i want no new callbacks and no 
changes to callbacks in the scheduler until this situation is cleaned 
up. Five callback sites are _way_ too much - so if you want to add 
callbacks or change them, please clean it up and improve it first.

	Ingo
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