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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:55:57 +0200
From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
To: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>,
Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
"Gautham R . Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@....com>,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/25] timer: Move from a push remote at enqueue to a
pull at expiry model
Hello Prateek,
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com> writes:
> Hello Anna-Maria,
>
> Happy to report I don't see any regression with this version of series.
> I'll leave the detailed report below.
[...]
> Thank you for debugging and helping fix the tbench regression.
> If the series does not change drastically, feel free to add:
>
> Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>
>
Thanks a lot for all the testing you did! When posting v9, I'll
summarize the changes and if required, I'll ask for testing support, if
it is ok?
>>
>> Possible Next Steps
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Simple deferrable timers are no longer required as they can be converted to
>> global timers. If a CPU goes idle, a formerly deferrable timer will not
>> prevent the CPU to sleep as long as possible. Only the last migrator CPU
>> has to take care of them. Deferrable timers with timer pinned flags needs
>> to be expired on the specified CPU but must not prevent CPU from going
>> idle. They require their own timer base which is never taken into account
>> when calculating the next expiry time. This conversation and required
>> cleanup will be done in a follow up series.
>>
>
> I'll keep an eye out for future versions for testing.
I'll keep you in the loop.
Thanks,
Anna-Maria
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