Re: [PATCH] kprobes: Fix to delay the kprobes jump optimization

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Feb 19 2021 - 14:15:19 EST


On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:18:11 -0800
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We can further prevent entry into dyntick-idle state until
> the ksoftirqd kthreads have been spawned, which means that if softirq
> handlers must be deferred, they will be resumed within one jiffy by the
> next scheduler-clock interrupt.

Why not just prevent entry into dyntick-idle state until the system is
finished booting? As you said; There should be no latency-sensitive
applications running, until after we started the system.

-- Steve