Hello everyone,
Before jumping into the issue, let me clarify the Cc list. Everyone have
been cc'ed on Patch 0 through Patch 3. Respective arch maintainers,
reviewers, and committers returned by scripts/get_maintainer.pl have
been cc'ed on the respective arch side changes. Scheduler and CPU Idle
From: "Gautham R. Shenoy"
Problem statement
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When measuring IPI throughput using a modified version of Anton
Blanchard's ipistorm benchmark [1], configured to measure time taken to
perform a fixed number of smp_call_function_single() (with wait set to
1), an increase in
From: "Gautham R. Shenoy"
Introduce the notion of TIF_NOTIFY_IPI flag. When a processor in
TIF_POLLING mode needs to process an IPI, the sender sets NEED_RESCHED
bit in idle task's thread_info to pull the target out of idle and avoids
sending an interrupt to the idle CPU. When NEED_RESCHED is
From: "Gautham R. Shenoy"
Currently TIF_NEED_RESCHED is being overloaded, to wakeup an idle CPU in
TIF_POLLING mode to service an IPI even if there are no new tasks being
woken up on the said CPU.
In preparation of a proper fix, introduce a new helper
"need_resched_or_ipi()" which is intended
