Re: [PATCH v16 00/13] support "task_isolation" mode

2018-03-07 Thread Yury Norov
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

Re: [PATCH v16 00/13] support "task_isolation" mode

2017-11-07 Thread Christopher Lameter
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

Re: [PATCH v16 00/13] support "task_isolation" mode

2017-11-07 Thread Chris Metcalf
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

Re: [PATCH v16 00/13] support "task_isolation" mode

2017-11-07 Thread Christopher Lameter
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

Re: [PATCH v16 00/13] support "task_isolation" mode

2017-11-06 Thread Christopher Lameter
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