From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu/nocb: Add an option to ON/OFF an offloading from RT context
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 10:14:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220510171456.GV1790663@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ynpxm46hEg0+G82g@linutronix.de>
On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 04:07:23PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2022-05-05 12:09:15 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > All good points!
> >
> > Some questions and comments below.
> >
> > Adding Sebastian on CC for his perspective.
>
> Thank you.
> I may missing things, I tried to digest the thread…
>
> In my understanding: The boosting option is used to allow a SCHED_OTHER
> task within a RCU section to allow to leave the RCU section while tasks
> with higher priority occupy the CPU.
> As far as the RCU callbacks are concerned, I'm not aware that it would
> be beneficial to run them with an elevated priority. On SMP systems,
> there is the suggestion to have a housekeeping CPU and to offload the
> RCU callbacks to this CPU and no to bother the CPU with the RT workload.
Agreed, even within RT, there are multiple ways to get this job done.
Thanx, Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-10 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-05 10:16 [PATCH] rcu/nocb: Add an option to ON/OFF an offloading from RT context Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2022-05-05 19:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-06 16:22 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-06 18:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-07 9:11 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-07 22:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-08 6:28 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-05-08 21:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-09 0:17 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-05-09 3:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-09 17:17 ` Joel Fernandes
2022-05-09 18:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-09 18:28 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-09 18:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-09 18:43 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-10 14:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-05-10 14:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-05-10 14:35 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-10 14:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-05-11 13:39 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-11 14:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-05-11 14:51 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-11 14:53 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-11 17:17 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-16 16:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-05-16 16:42 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-05-10 14:07 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2022-05-10 17:14 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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