Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 07/10] xen: credit2: always mark a tickled pCPU as... tickled!

2017-02-15 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Dario Faggioli wrote: > On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 14:59 +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote: >> In fact, whether or not a pCPU has been tickled, and is >> therefore about to re-schedule, is something we look at >> and base decisions on in various

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 07/10] xen: credit2: always mark a tickled pCPU as... tickled!

2017-02-09 Thread Dario Faggioli
On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 14:59 +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote: > In fact, whether or not a pCPU has been tickled, and is > therefore about to re-schedule, is something we look at > and base decisions on in various places. > > So, let's make sure that we do that basing on accurate > information. > >

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 07/10] xen: credit2: always mark a tickled pCPU as... tickled!

2017-02-09 Thread Dario Faggioli
In fact, whether or not a pCPU has been tickled, and is therefore about to re-schedule, is something we look at and base decisions on in various places. So, let's make sure that we do that basing on accurate information. While there, also tweak a little bit smt_idle_mask_clear() (used for