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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] vhost: improve livepatch switching for heavily loaded vhost worker kthreads
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:52:38AM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:37:02AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 08:43:55PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > Here's another idea, have we considered this? Have livepatch set
> > > TIF_NEED_RESCHED on all kthreads to force them into schedule(), and then
> > > have the scheduler call klp_try_switch_task() if TIF_PATCH_PENDING is
> > > set.
> > >
> > > Not sure how scheduler folks would feel about that ;-)
>
> Hmmmm, with preemption I guess the above doesn't work for kthreads
> calling cond_resched() instead of what vhost_worker() does (explicit
> need_resched/schedule).

Though I guess we could hook into cond_resched() too if we make it a
non-NOP for PREEMPT+LIVEPATCH?

--
Josh

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