Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Scheduler idle notifiers and users | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:09:07 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 16:00 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > A third possibility is to self-IPI and take it from there.. assuming > > these platforms can actually self-IPI. > > Even if there was an IPI (not talking about SMP anyway) I'm not sure > what good it would be. We can (and do) get an IRQ from the LCD > controller when its shutdown is complete, but that would have to be > somehow propagated back up to the cpufreq code. And the cpufreq code > would have to know that the LCD controller was alive and therefore had > to be waited for. All sounds rather yucky to me.
If can self-ipi from the scheduler context (which has IRQs disabled), once you get to the ipi handler your scheduler locks are gone and you can queue a worklet or wake some kthread to do all the sleeping stuff.
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