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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pranith Kumar <pranith@gatech.edu>
Cc: "Amit Shah" <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Lai Jiangshan" <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"Dipankar Sarma" <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	"Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	dvhart@linux.intel.com,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Silas Boyd-Wickizer" <sbw@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/2] rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:23:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140824032339.GK2663@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhHMCCntYQy624Kwb5bs7MAKKYrSRbG0SezxgbQfHwYA2C40w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 08:26:10PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > It might well!  Another possibility is that the early_initcall function
> > doing the synchronize_rcu() is happening before the early_initcall
> > creating the RCU grace-period kthreads.
> >
> > Seems like we need to close both holes.  Let's see how your patch works
> > for Amit, and I am testing a patch for the possible early_initcall
> > ordering issue.
> 
> I checked the init call which is calling synchronize_rcu():
> subsys_initcall(pm_sysrq_init); this is being called after
> early_initcall.
> 
> The order of initcalls is early, core, postcore, arch, subsys, fs,
> device, late. So I guess that is ok.
> 
> I wonder why it was not showing up in 12.04. I have a dual boot. Will
> test it out and see if I can find something.

Me, I am wondering about 7,000 callbacks being registered during early
boot time.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-24  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-23  7:43 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/2] rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups Pranith Kumar
2014-08-23 16:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-24  0:26   ` Pranith Kumar
2014-08-24  3:23     ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-08-24  3:39       ` Pranith Kumar
2014-08-24 14:36         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-27  4:43 ` Amit Shah
2014-08-27 16:21   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-27 16:43     ` Pranith Kumar
2014-08-27 17:08       ` Paul E. McKenney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-07-07 22:48 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/2] Callback-offloading changes for 3.17 Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-11 13:35 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/2] rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-08  8:40   ` Amit Shah
2014-08-08 16:25     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-08 17:37       ` Amit Shah
2014-08-08 18:18         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-08 18:34           ` Amit Shah
2014-08-08 21:43             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-08 21:46               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-11  7:13                 ` Amit Shah
2014-08-11 16:28                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-11 19:41                     ` Amit Shah
2014-08-11 20:11                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-11 20:18                         ` Amit Shah
2014-08-11 20:34                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-12  3:45                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-12  5:33                               ` Amit Shah
2014-08-12 16:06                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-12 21:39                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-12 21:41                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-12 21:44                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-13  5:44                                       ` Amit Shah
2014-08-13 13:00                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-13 14:18                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-15  5:24                                           ` Amit Shah
2014-08-15 15:04                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-18 17:53                                               ` Amit Shah
2014-08-19  4:01                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-22 12:24                                                   ` Amit Shah
2014-08-22 12:36                                                     ` Amit Shah
2014-08-22 12:56                                                       ` Amit Shah
2014-08-22 14:48                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-22 17:14                                                           ` Amit Shah
2014-08-22 17:37                                                             ` Amit Shah
2014-08-22 21:53                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-22 21:57                                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-22 14:43                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-08-12  5:27                             ` Amit Shah
2014-08-12 16:08                               ` Paul E. McKenney

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