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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:25:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Subject: Re: [v7 0/8] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Frederic's work checks to see if there is only one runnable user task
> on a given CPU. If there is only one, then the scheduling-clock interrupt
> is turned off for that CPU, and RCU is told to ignore it while it is
> executing in user space. Not sure whether this covers KVM guests.
>
> In any case, this is not yet in mainline.
Sounds great. Is there any plan on when to merge it? Where are the most up
to date patches vs mainstream?
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