Re: sched: wakeup setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED too frequently

[Jörn Engel]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:30:05AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> set_nr_if_polling() only sets TIF_NEED_RESCHED IFF TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is
> set. TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is only set when idle and is then sufficient to
> wake that cpu and reschedule.
> 
> If not TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, then we send an IPI to deal with the
> non-empty wake_list.

Yeah, saw that myself.  My explanation of the behaviour is wrong.  The
observed behaviour remains, though.

Guess I have to add more instrumentation if I cannot find the cause by
reading the code.

Thank you!

Jörn

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