On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:06:47AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 23:52 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:32:44PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > > FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
> > > stall.2015.01.06a
> > > commit 00f5159aeb68f08ce29597be86be87d6db0c1ba1 ("rcu: Run grace-period
> > > kthreads at real-time priority")
> >
> > Glad this helps!
>
> The way I read it, it's hurting by increasing context switches... but if
> you'll need a boot param to turn it on in the future, this is moot :)
Heh! I guess I should read it more carefully. Anyway, the commit does
help in some heavy-load situations, but something more deft is clearly
required if it is to be enabled more generally.
Thanx, Paul
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