Re: [GIT PULL, RFC] Full dynticks, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL feature

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Metcalf
On 5/6/2013 3:32 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Paul E. McKenney > wrote: >>> >>> I think Linus might have referred to my 'future plans' entry: > > Indeed. I feel that HPC is entirely irrelevant to anybody, > *especially* HPC benchmarks. In real life, even HPC doesn't

Re: [GIT PULL, RFC] Full dynticks, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL feature

2013-05-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Paul E. McKenney > wrote: > >> > >> I think Linus might have referred to my 'future plans' entry: > > Indeed. I feel that HPC is entirely irrelevant to anybody, > *especially* HPC benchmarks. In real life, even HPC doesn't tend to > hav

Re: [GIT PULL, RFC] Full dynticks, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL feature

2013-05-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> >> I think Linus might have referred to my 'future plans' entry: Indeed. I feel that HPC is entirely irrelevant to anybody, *especially* HPC benchmarks. In real life, even HPC doesn't tend to have the nice behavior their much-touted bench

Re: [GIT PULL, RFC] Full dynticks, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL feature

2013-05-06 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:25:37AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 01:33:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > > Please consider pulling the latest timers-nohz-for-linus git

Re: [GIT PULL, RFC] Full dynticks, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL feature

2013-05-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 01:33:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > Please consider pulling the latest timers-nohz-for-linus git tree from: > > > > Ok, it seems to work for me, so pulled. > > > > Howeve

Re: [GIT PULL, RFC] Full dynticks, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL feature

2013-05-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 01:33:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Please consider pulling the latest timers-nohz-for-linus git tree from: > > Ok, it seems to work for me, so pulled. > > However, by "work for me" I mean "doesn't actually

Re: [GIT PULL, RFC] Full dynticks, CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL feature

2013-05-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Please consider pulling the latest timers-nohz-for-linus git tree from: Ok, it seems to work for me, so pulled. However, by "work for me" I mean "doesn't actually seem to make any difference for me". Maybe I'm odd, but the most common situat