Hi Chris,
(CC Cavium people)
Thanks for your series.
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 01:04:39PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> Here, finally, is a new spin of the task isolation work (v16), with
> changes based on the issues that were raised at last year's Linux
> Plumbers Conference and in the email dis
On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> > Presumably we have another context there were we may be able to call into
> > the cleanup code with interrupts enabled.
>
> Right now for task isolation we run with interrupts enabled during the
> initial sys_prctl() call, and call quiet_vmstat_sync() t
On 11/7/2017 12:10 PM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Chris Metcalf wrote:
On 11/6/2017 10:38 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
What about that d*mn 1 Hz clock?
It's still there, so this code still requires some further work before
it can actually get a process into long-term tas
On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> On 11/6/2017 10:38 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > > What about that d*mn 1 Hz clock?
> > >
> > > It's still there, so this code still requires some further work before
> > > it can actually get a process into long-term task isolation (without
> > > th
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> However, it doesn't seem possible to do the synchronous cancellation of
> the vmstat deferred work with irqs disabled, though if there's a way,
> it would be a little cleaner to do that; Christoph? We can certainly
> update the statistics with interrupts