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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: let the scheduler see CPU idle states
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:32:25PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> > So what is it that you really need to do here?
>
> In short, we don't want the cpufreq data to go away (see the 2 scenarios
> above) while the scheduler is looking at it. The scheduler uses the
> provided accessors (see patch 2/2) so we can put any protection
> mechanism we want in them. A simple spinlock could do just as well
> which should be good enough.

rq->lock disables interrupts so on that something like
kick_all_cpus_sync() will guarantee what you need --
wake_up_all_idle_cpus() will not.


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