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Message-ID: <20150512093202.GG21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:32:02 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
Gilad Ben Yossef <giladb@...hip.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] dataplane nohz: run softirqs synchronously on user
entry
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:13:16PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> The thing you want to avoid is having two processes both
> runnable at once
Right, because as soon as nr_running > 1 we kill the entire nohz_full
thing. RT or not for ksoftirqd doesn't matter.
Then again, like interrupts, you basically want to avoid softirqs in
this mode.
So I think the right solution is to figure out why the softirqs get
raised and cure that.
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