Re: [RFC PATCH 11/15] x86: Nohz task support

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 02:30 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 05:23:19PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 16:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > 
> > > Implement the thread flag, syscalls and exception hooks for
> > > nohz task support.
> > > 
> > 
> > I saw:
> >  - syscall
> >  - do_int3
> >  - do_debug (int1)
> >  - #PF
> > 
> > So where's all other interrupts?
> 
> No need to handle them.
> 
> We have:
> 
> rcu_irq_enter() rcu_irq_exit() rcu_nmi_enter() rcu_nmi_exit()
> and they already act as pauses into extended quiescent states, which
> is enough for our needs.

Oh, and RCU is the only thing you need to worry about is it?
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