Re: [PATCH 2/7] nohz: New tick dependency mask

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:56:33AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:20:28PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > > +	prev = fetch_or(dep, BIT_MASK(bit));
> > > > +	if (!prev) {
> > > > +		/*
> > > > +		* We need the IPIs to be sent from sane process context.
> > > 
> > > Why ?
> > 
> > Because posix timers code is all called with interrupts disabled and we can't
> > send IPIs then.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > +		* The posix cpu timers are always set with irqs disabled.
> > > > +		*/
> > > > +		schedule_work(&kick_all_work);
> > > > +	}
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * Set a global tick dependency. Lets do the wide IPI kick asynchronously
> > > > + * for callers with irqs disabled.
> > > 
> > > This seems to suggest you can call this with IRQs disabled
> > 
> > Ah right, that's a misleading comment. We need to use the _delayed() version
> > when interrupts are disabled.
> 
> Why can't you use tick_nohz_full_kick_cpu() for all that, which is
> usable from IRQ context and avoid all that delayed muck?

Because I need to kick all the CPUs where the task/signal is running on. That's
a bit difficult to do though. I think we had something to try to send an IPI to a task,
but I can't retrieve it. Looks easy to do anyway. But in the signal case I'd need to do
that for all tasks in the group. That sounds like a costly loop.

So I simplify that with a global IPI.

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