Re: [RFC PATCH 15/15] nohz_task: Procfs interface

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/21/2010 10:14 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 02:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> >  >  Also, I'm not quite happy with the pure userspace restriction, but at
> >  >  least I see why you did that event though you didn't mention that.
> >
> >  What do you mean? The fact that kernel threads can not be nohz task?
>
> No, that you key off kernel/user boundary transitions. Arguably one
> could allow simply system calls and page-faults to happen without
> restarting the tick, then again, RCU is very pervasive these days so I'm
> not quite sure you can actually make that happen.

For an example of a per-cpu flag that is checked on every exit with zero 
additional overhead on the flag clear case, look at TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY.

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