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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, efault@gmx.de, felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] N1int for interactivity
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:59:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030714205915.5a4c8d16.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307151355.23586.kernel@kolivas.org>

Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>
> I've modified Mike Galbraith's nanosleep work for greater resolution to help 
> the interactivity estimator work I've done in the O*int patches.

> +inline void __scheduler_tick(runqueue_t *rq, task_t *p)

Two callsites, this guy shouldn't be inlined.

Should it have static scope?  The code as-is generates a third copy...

>  static unsigned long long monotonic_clock_tsc(void)
>  {
>  	unsigned long long last_offset, this_offset, base;
> -	
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
>  	/* atomically read monotonic base & last_offset */
> -	read_lock_irq(&monotonic_lock);
> +	read_lock_irqsave(&monotonic_lock, flags);
>  	last_offset = ((unsigned long long)last_tsc_high<<32)|last_tsc_low;
>  	base = monotonic_base;
> -	read_unlock_irq(&monotonic_lock);
> +	read_unlock_irqrestore(&monotonic_lock, flags);
>  
>  	/* Read the Time Stamp Counter */

Why do we need to take a global lock here?  Can't we use
get_cycles() or something?


Have all the other architectures been reviewed to see if they need this
change?


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-15  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-15  3:55 [PATCH] N1int for interactivity Con Kolivas
2003-07-15  3:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-07-15  4:03   ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-15  7:02     ` Mike Galbraith
2003-07-15  7:00   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-15 10:23     ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-15 15:23 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-15 23:12   ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-16  7:12     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana

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