From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>, Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, Edward Liaw <edliaw@google.com>,
Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 17:03:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240403150343.GC31764@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jcid3f6.ffs@tglx>
On 04/03, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> The test if fragile as hell as there is absolutely no guarantee that the
> signal target distribution is as expected. The expectation is based on a
> statistical assumption which does not really hold.
Agreed. I too never liked this test-case.
I forgot everything about this patch and test-case, I can't really read
your patch right now (sorry), so I am sure I missed something, but
> static void *distribution_thread(void *arg)
> {
> - while (__atomic_load_n(&remain, __ATOMIC_RELAXED));
> - return NULL;
> + while (__atomic_load_n(&remain, __ATOMIC_RELAXED) && !done) {
> + if (got_signal)
> + usleep(10);
> + }
> +
> + return (void *)got_signal;
> }
Why distribution_thread() can't simply exit if got_signal != 0 ?
See https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230128195641.GA14906@redhat.com/
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-03 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-16 12:30 [PATCH v6 1/2] posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread Marco Elver
2023-03-16 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] selftests/timers/posix_timers: Test delivery of signals across threads Marco Elver
2024-04-06 20:53 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2024-04-06 21:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-06 21:32 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2023-03-30 10:19 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread Marco Elver
2023-04-06 14:12 ` Marco Elver
2023-04-06 15:13 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2023-04-06 20:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-04-01 20:17 ` John Stultz
2024-04-02 9:07 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2024-04-02 14:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-02 17:23 ` John Stultz
2024-04-03 12:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-03 15:03 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2024-04-03 15:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-03 16:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-03 18:16 ` John Stultz
2024-04-03 19:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-03 19:35 ` John Stultz
2024-04-03 22:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-04 14:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-04 18:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-06 15:09 ` [PATCH] selftests/timers/posix_timers: reimplement check_timer_distribution() Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-06 15:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-06 22:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-08 8:30 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2024-04-08 10:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-08 10:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-08 18:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-08 22:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-09 11:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-09 11:45 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2024-04-09 12:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-09 13:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-10 22:21 ` John Stultz
2024-04-10 22:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-10 22:33 ` John Stultz
2024-04-11 12:41 ` [PATCH] " Mark Brown
2024-04-11 15:33 ` John Stultz
2024-04-11 12:44 ` Mark Brown
2024-04-11 14:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-11 15:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-11 16:03 ` Mark Brown
2024-04-12 12:35 ` [PATCH] selftests: fix build failure with NOLIBC Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-14 7:42 ` Mark Brown
2024-04-04 8:55 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread Dmitry Vyukov
2024-04-04 13:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-04 15:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-04 15:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-04-05 4:28 ` Dmitry Vyukov
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