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

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:14:40AM +0100, 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

This is what I do.

> then again, RCU is very pervasive these days so I'm
> not quite sure you can actually make that happen.

No it looks ok. If we entered the kernel and the tick is stopped, we
just exit the extended quiescent state from rcu point of view.

But because we don't tick, we don't notify quiescent state and
so rcu might notice an extended grace period. Then it will
send us the IPI that will make us restart the tick to make us
notifying quiescent states.
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