Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:18:17 +0100 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/3] nohz: change signal tick dependency to wakeup CPUs of member tasks |
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:00:41AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 01:25:21PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 05:21:36PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Rather than waking up all nohz_full CPUs on the system, only wakeup > > > the target CPUs of member threads of the signal. > > > > > > Reduces interruptions to nohz_full CPUs. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> > > > > > > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > > > =================================================================== > > > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > > > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c > > > @@ -444,9 +444,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_dep_clear_ta > > > * Set a per-taskgroup tick dependency. Posix CPU timers need this in order to elapse > > > * per process timers. > > > */ > > > -void tick_nohz_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *sig, enum tick_dep_bits > > > bit) > > > > Why not keeping the signal struct as a parameter? > > > > Thanks. > > All callers use "struct signal_struct *sig = tsk->signal" as > signal parameter anyway...
Sure, but that makes more sense with the function role and name.
> > Can change parameters to (task, signal, bit) if you prefer.
That's ok I can do it, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a reason behind it.
Thanks!
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