RE: [PATCH 1/1] kthread: disable preemption during complete()

[Peter Boonstoppel]

> > tglx has patches that make the kthread create/destroy stuff from hotplug
> > go away.. that seems like the better approach.

> Right. That cpu hotplug setup/teardown stuff is ugly.

If that stuff gets removed complete that's great. The only change I'm aware of right now is the workqueue one: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1329164

> > The main thing is avoiding the wakeup preemption from the complete()
> > because we're going to sleep right after anyway.

You are very likely to be preempted by the complete(), since the newly created thread has a relatively high vruntime.

> > The comment doesn't really make that clear.

> Right, the comment is crap. It has nothing to do with kthread_bind()
> and stuff. The whole purpose is to avoid the pointless preemption
> after wakeup.

The only case I want to solve is the kthread_bind()->wait_task_inactive() scenario. On our platforms this patch reduces average cpu_up() time from about 9ms to 8ms, but max time goes down from 37ms to 8.5ms. cpu_up() latency becomes much more predictable.


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