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[61.68.227.232]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a11sm8884053pfn.125.2020.11.22.01.11.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:11:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:11:52 +1100 From: Balbir Singh To: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan , Julien Desfossez , Peter Zijlstra , Tim Chen , Vineeth Pillai , Aaron Lu , Aubrey Li , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, keescook@chromium.org, kerrnel@google.com, Phil Auld , Valentin Schneider , Mel Gorman , Pawan Gupta , Paolo Bonzini , vineeth@bitbyteword.org, Chen Yu , Christian Brauner , Agata Gruza , Antonio Gomez Iglesias , graf@amazon.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, dfaggioli@suse.com, pjt@google.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, derkling@google.com, benbjiang@tencent.com, Alexandre Chartre , James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, OWeisse@umich.edu, Dhaval Giani , Junaid Shahid , jsbarnes@google.com, chris.hyser@oracle.com, Ben Segall , Josh Don , Hao Luo , Tom Lendacky , Aubrey Li , "Paul E. McKenney" , Tim Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 04/32] sched: Core-wide rq->lock Message-ID: <20201122091152.GB110669@balbir-desktop> References: <20201117232003.3580179-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> <20201117232003.3580179-5-joel@joelfernandes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201117232003.3580179-5-joel@joelfernandes.org> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:19:34PM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra > > Introduce the basic infrastructure to have a core wide rq->lock. > Reading through the patch, it seems like all the CPUs have to be running with sched core enabled/disabled? Is it possible to have some cores with core sched disabled? I don't see a strong use case for it, but I am wondering if the design will fall apart if that assumption is broken? Balbir Singh