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SubjectRe: [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Avoid _cond_resched() for PREEMPT=y
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 01:28:17PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 08:42:28PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:25:01PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > I've found a document that says that cond_resched() is needed on
> > > preemptible kernels to mark RCU quiescent states:
> > >
> > > https://lwn.net/Articles/603252/
> > >
> > > Paul, is cond_resched() still needed on current RCU implementation? Or not?
> >
> > No, we ripped that out. See 4a81e8328d37 ("rcu: Reduce overhead of
> > cond_resched() checks for RCU")
>
> I would instead say that we changed the algorithm to reduce the overhead
> in the common case, but yes, this commit did change things quite a bit.

Sure, but critical point (for this discussion) is that cond_resched() no
longer implies anything RCU, it really only is a voluntary reschedule
point.

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