Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:08:08 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC patch 2/5] smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads |
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 04:12:14PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Btw, if that simpler yield approach is working and I can't see why it > > > > shouldn't then you can get rid of the node task as well. The only > > > > purpose of it is to push up the priority of yielding tasks, right? > > > > > > Ah, missed that it calls rcu_initiate_boost() as well.... > > > > And looking further, I really don't understand why it's doing > > that. That node thread is only woken by these weird yield timers. > > If your patch works out, it indeed might be possible to get rid of > ->node_kthread_task. The ->boost_kthread_task needs to stay, however.
That's right.
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