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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] workqueue: add quiescent state between work items
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 01:45:28PM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 06:43:29 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:29:42AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> [ ... snip ... ]
> > >
> > > Paul, Tehun, how do you propose to fix this on older kernels which do
> > > not have rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch? I'm particullary interested
> > > in 3.10.
> >
> > Hello, Jiri,
> >
> > Older kernels can instead use rcu_note_context_switch().
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Does 4a81e8328d37 ("rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for
> RCU") affect a backport to 3.10?
>
> I noticed that rcu_note_context_switch added a call to
> rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle in that change, which is only present in
> v3.16+.
>
> Would rcu_note_context_switch be effective by itself on a 3.10 kernel?

Should be fine. There is more overhead than current mainline, but that
should not be in the noise compared to executing a work-queue item.

Thanx, Paul



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