From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: eranian@google.com, peterz@infradead.org,
alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, acme@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jolsa@redhat.com,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf/x86/intel: Force resched when TFA sysctl is modified
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:06:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190417060625.GB97541@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1904161227001.20764@macbook-air>
* Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, tip-bot for Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
> > Commit-ID: f447e4eb3ad1e60d173ca997fcb2ef2a66f12574
> > Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/f447e4eb3ad1e60d173ca997fcb2ef2a66f12574
> > Author: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> > AuthorDate: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 10:32:52 -0700
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > CommitDate: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:19:35 +0200
> >
> > perf/x86/intel: Force resched when TFA sysctl is modified
>
> What's TFA? Tuna-fish-alarm?
Heh, I wish! :-)
> [...] Nowhere in the commit or in the code does it ever say what a TFA
> is or why we'd want to resched when it is modified.
Yeah, it's the TSX-Force-Abort acronym - Intel has numbed our general
dislike to random acrynyms ...
Peter and me usually fix such changelog context omissions, but this one
slipped through. :-/
The commit is too deep down perf/core already to rebase it just for the
changelog, but if we are going to rebase it for some functional reason
I'll take care of it next time around.
TFA. (Thanks For your Assistance. :-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-08 17:32 [PATCH v2 0/3] perf/x86/intel: force reschedule on TFA changes Stephane Eranian
2019-04-08 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] perf/core: add perf_ctx_resched() as global function Stephane Eranian
2019-04-15 15:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-15 15:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-16 11:33 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/core: Add perf_pmu_resched() " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2019-04-08 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] perf/x86/intel: force resched when TFA sysctl is modified Stephane Eranian
2019-04-15 15:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-15 17:20 ` Stephane Eranian
2019-04-16 11:33 ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86/intel: Force " tip-bot for Stephane Eranian
2019-04-16 16:28 ` Vince Weaver
2019-04-16 17:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-17 6:06 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2019-04-18 21:50 ` Stephane Eranian
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