Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:00:37 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] dm: Remove dm_bufio_cond_resched() |
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On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:59:30PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 09:39:59AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > > > > So I'm not sure how this dm-bufio local cond_resched() wrapper still got > > > > > in... happy to take your patch. > > > > > > > > > > Please respond with whatever SOB you'd like applied to the patch header. > > > > > > > > Sorry, for the delay, here goes. > > > > > > Why not change it to might_sleep()? - that would be almost equivalent to > > > > You mean might_resched(). might_sleep() is not even remotely equivalent. > > It is, might_sleep() implies might_resched(). In fact, that's all what > PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is, make the might_sleep() debug test imply a resched > point.
Grr, how intuitive - NOT!
> > > If we call the cond_resched() function in tight loops such as walking all > > > buffers in a list, there may be performance penalty due to the call, so > > > the call should be done only if it is really needed (i.e. in > > > CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY case). > > > > Makes sense. > > Is anybody still using PREEMPT_NONE? Most workloads also care about > latency to some extend. Lots of code has explicit cond_resched() and > doesn't worry.
Dunno. But I bet there are workloads which love it.
Thanks,
tglx
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