From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/30] sched: handle preempt=voluntary under PREEMPT_AUTO
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:03:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfv4fpkz.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whgp+Az+rR4L3oAnmbpSq7QqUEjJUNRpeeqsJ3O+Z8-QQ@mail.gmail.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 13:10, Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, I see your point. Basically, keep the lazy semantics but -- in
>> addition -- also provide the ability to dynamically toggle
>> cond_resched(), might_reshed() as a feature to help move this along
>> further.
>
> Please, let's not make up any random hypotheticals.
>
> Honestly, if we ever hit the hypothetical scenario that Paul outlined, let's
>
> (a) deal with it THEN, when we actually know what the situation is
>
> (b) learn and document what it is that actually causes the odd behavior
>
> IOW, instead of assuming that some "cond_resched()" case would even be
> the right thing to do, maybe there are other issues going on? Let's
> not paper over them by keeping some hack around - and *if* some
> cond_resched() model is actually the right model in some individual
> place, let's make it the rule that *when* we hit that case, we
> document it.
>
> And we should absolutely not have some hypothetical case keep us from
> just doing the right thing and getting rid of the existing
> cond_resched().
>
> Because any potential future case is *not* going to be the same
> cond_resched() that the current case is anyway. It is going to have
> some very different cause.
Ack that. And, thanks that makes sense to me.
--
ankur
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-11 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-13 5:55 [PATCH 00/30] PREEMPT_AUTO: support lazy rescheduling Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 01/30] preempt: introduce CONFIG_PREEMPT_AUTO Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 02/30] thread_info: selector for TIF_NEED_RESCHED[_LAZY] Ankur Arora
2024-02-19 15:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-20 22:50 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 17:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-21 18:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-02-21 20:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 03/30] thread_info: tif_need_resched() now takes resched_t as param Ankur Arora
2024-02-14 3:17 ` kernel test robot
2024-02-14 14:08 ` Mark Rutland
2024-02-15 4:08 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-19 12:30 ` Mark Rutland
2024-02-20 22:09 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-19 15:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-20 22:21 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 17:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-21 21:22 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 04/30] sched: make test_*_tsk_thread_flag() return bool Ankur Arora
2024-02-14 14:12 ` Mark Rutland
2024-02-15 2:04 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 05/30] sched: *_tsk_need_resched() now takes resched_t as param Ankur Arora
2024-02-19 15:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-20 22:37 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 17:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 06/30] entry: handle lazy rescheduling at user-exit Ankur Arora
2024-02-19 15:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-20 22:38 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 07/30] entry/kvm: handle lazy rescheduling at guest-entry Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 08/30] entry: irqentry_exit only preempts for TIF_NEED_RESCHED Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 09/30] sched: __schedule_loop() doesn't need to check for need_resched_lazy() Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 10/30] sched: separate PREEMPT_DYNAMIC config logic Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 11/30] sched: runtime preemption config under PREEMPT_AUTO Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 12/30] rcu: limit PREEMPT_RCU to full preemption " Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 13/30] rcu: fix header guard for rcu_all_qs() Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 14/30] preempt,rcu: warn on PREEMPT_RCU=n, preempt=full Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 15/30] rcu: handle quiescent states for PREEMPT_RCU=n, PREEMPT_COUNT=y Ankur Arora
2024-03-10 10:03 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-10 18:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-11 0:48 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-11 3:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-11 15:01 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-11 20:51 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-11 22:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-11 5:18 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-11 15:25 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-11 19:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-11 19:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-11 20:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-12 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-12 0:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-12 3:16 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-12 3:24 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-12 5:23 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 16/30] rcu: force context-switch " Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 17/30] x86/thread_info: define TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY Ankur Arora
2024-02-14 13:25 ` Mark Rutland
2024-02-14 20:31 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-19 12:32 ` Mark Rutland
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 18/30] sched: prepare for lazy rescheduling in resched_curr() Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 19/30] sched: default preemption policy for PREEMPT_AUTO Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 20/30] sched: handle idle preemption " Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 21/30] sched: schedule eagerly in resched_cpu() Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 22/30] sched/fair: refactor update_curr(), entity_tick() Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 23/30] sched/fair: handle tick expiry under lazy preemption Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 21:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-02-28 13:47 ` Juri Lelli
2024-02-29 6:43 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-29 9:33 ` Juri Lelli
2024-02-29 23:54 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-01 0:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 24/30] sched: support preempt=none under PREEMPT_AUTO Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 25/30] sched: support preempt=full " Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 26/30] sched: handle preempt=voluntary " Ankur Arora
2024-03-03 1:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-05 8:11 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-06 20:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-07 19:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-08 0:15 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-08 0:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-08 4:22 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-08 21:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-11 4:50 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-11 19:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-11 20:09 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-11 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-03-11 21:03 ` Ankur Arora [this message]
2024-03-12 0:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-12 12:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-12 19:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-08 3:49 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-08 5:29 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-08 6:54 ` Juri Lelli
2024-03-11 5:34 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 27/30] sched: latency warn for TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 28/30] tracing: support lazy resched Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 29/30] Documentation: tracing: add TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 21:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-02-21 23:22 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 23:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-03-01 23:33 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-03-02 3:09 ` Ankur Arora
2024-03-03 19:32 ` Joel Fernandes
2024-02-13 5:55 ` [PATCH 30/30] osnoise: handle quiescent states for PREEMPT_RCU=n, PREEMPTION=y Ankur Arora
2024-02-13 9:47 ` [PATCH 00/30] PREEMPT_AUTO: support lazy rescheduling Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-02-13 21:46 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-14 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-15 2:03 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-15 3:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-15 19:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-15 20:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-15 20:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-15 20:53 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-15 20:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-15 21:24 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-15 22:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-15 22:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-16 0:45 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-16 2:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-17 0:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-17 3:59 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-18 18:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-19 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-21 18:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-02-21 19:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-21 20:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-02-21 20:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-22 15:50 ` Mark Rutland
2024-02-22 19:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-23 11:05 ` Mark Rutland
2024-02-23 15:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-02 1:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-03-19 11:45 ` Tasks RCU, ftrace, and trampolines (was: Re: [PATCH 00/30] PREEMPT_AUTO: support lazy rescheduling) Mark Rutland
2024-03-19 23:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-21 6:48 ` [PATCH 00/30] PREEMPT_AUTO: support lazy rescheduling Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-02-16 0:45 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-21 12:23 ` Raghavendra K T
2024-02-21 17:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-21 17:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2024-02-21 21:16 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-22 4:05 ` Raghavendra K T
2024-02-22 21:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-02-23 3:14 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-23 6:28 ` Raghavendra K T
2024-02-24 3:15 ` Raghavendra K T
2024-02-27 17:45 ` Ankur Arora
2024-02-22 13:04 ` Raghavendra K T
2024-04-23 15:21 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2024-04-23 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-26 7:46 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2024-04-26 19:00 ` Ankur Arora
2024-05-07 11:16 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2024-05-08 5:18 ` Ankur Arora
2024-05-15 14:31 ` Shrikanth Hegde
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