Re: [PATCH 0/2] vtime: Remove pair of seqcount on context switch
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 07 2019 - 12:20:37 EST
* Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Extracted from a larger queue that fixes kcpustat on nohz_full, these
> two patches have value on their own as they remove two write barriers
> on nohz_full context switch.
>
> Frederic Weisbecker (2):
> vtime: Rename vtime_account_system() to vtime_account_kernel()
> vtime: Spare a seqcount lock/unlock cycle on context switch
>
> arch/ia64/kernel/time.c | 4 +--
> arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 6 ++--
> arch/s390/kernel/vtime.c | 4 +--
> include/linux/context_tracking.h | 4 +--
> include/linux/vtime.h | 38 ++++++++++++------------
> kernel/sched/cputime.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
Which tree is this against? Doesn't apply cleanly to v5.4-rc2 nor v5.3.
Does it have any prereqs perhaps?
Thanks,
Ingo