Re: [v7 0/8] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Feb 02 2012 - 12:25:57 EST


On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> Frederic's work checks to see if there is only one runnable user task
> on a given CPU. If there is only one, then the scheduling-clock interrupt
> is turned off for that CPU, and RCU is told to ignore it while it is
> executing in user space. Not sure whether this covers KVM guests.
>
> In any case, this is not yet in mainline.

Sounds great. Is there any plan on when to merge it? Where are the most up
to date patches vs mainstream?

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