Re: [PATCH 0/6] nohz: Move nohz kick out of scheduler IPI, v8

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 11:48:52 EST


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 05:15:03PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> So this set happens to have more changes than expected because I
> found out that the timer list full nohz kick also relies on the scheduler
> IPI. So I had to convert it as well, hence a few more change splitups.
>
> Changes:
>
> * Check also raised lists from irq_work_needs_cpu() (thanks Peterz)
>
> * Comment on SMP functions priority in
> generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt() because IPI callbacks there
> are often synchronous as opposed to irq works. (thanks Peterz)
>
> * s/native_send_call_func_single_ipi/native_send_call_func_single_ipi
> (thanks Eric Dumazet)
>
> * Only build irq_work_queue_on() on CONFIG_SMP, fixes some broken builds
>
> * Convert full nohz timer list kick
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
> timers/nohz-irq-work-v6
>

I think you finally nailed it ;-)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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