From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Philippe Bergheaud <felix@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: set default kernel thread priority to medium-low
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:49:00 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1386755340.15730.11.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386743357.27999.1.camel@concordia>
On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 17:29 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> It would be nice if you could make an assertion about what the state of HMT
> handling should be once your patch is applied.
>
> I think it's:
>
> * The kernel should use HMT_MEDIUM_LOW as it's "default" priority
> * The kernel should use HMT_LOW as it's "low" priority
>
> Which would imply:
>
> * The kernel should not use HMT_MEDIUM anywhere ..
> * Nor should it use any of the other higher HMT modes.
>
> Do you agree?
>
> The reason I ask is I still see HMT_MEDIUM used in a few places, and it's not
> clear to me if that is correct.
HMT_MEDIUM used to be our default no ?
Also there's an open question... when doing things with interrupts off
(or worse, in real mode) such as some KVM hcalls etc... should we on the
contrary boost up to limit interrupt latency ?
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-11 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-10 7:39 [PATCH] powerpc: set default kernel thread priority to medium-low Philippe Bergheaud
2013-12-11 6:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-12-11 9:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-12-11 10:30 ` Philippe Bergheaud
2013-12-12 1:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-12-12 7:11 ` Philippe Bergheaud
2013-12-13 2:03 ` Michael Ellerman
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