Re: is minimum udelay() not respected in preemptible SMP kernel-2.6.23?

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 08 November 2007 01:20, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:30:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Ow.  Yes, from my reading delay_tsc() can return early (or after
> > heat-death-of-the-universe) if the TSCs are offset and if preemption
> > migrates the calling task between CPUs.
> >
> > I suppose a lameo fix would be to disable preemption in delay_tsc().
>
> preempt_disable is lousy documentation here. This and other cases
> (lots of per_cpu users, IIRC) actually want a migrate_disable() which
> is a proper subset. We can simply implement migrate_disable() as
> preempt_disable() for now and come back later and implement a proper
> migrate_disable() that still allows preemption (and thus avoids the
> latency).

We could actually do this right now. migrate_disable() can be just changing
the cpu affinity of the current thread to current cpu and then restoring it 
afterwards. That should even work from interrupt context.

get_cpu() etc. could be changed to use this then too.

-Andi
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