linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] printk: Support for full dynticks mode

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Date:	Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:29:38 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] printk: Support for full dynticks mode

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 22:24 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> The reason to avoid the wake up of klogd() is that it also grabs the
> wait queue spinlock every time it's called. up() is fast when there's no
> waiters, but wake_up_interruptible() is not so fast.

I take that back. Seems up() takes the sem->lock every time too :-p

But it's just a matter of slowing things down. I don't see it causing
any deadlocks.

-- Steve


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