Re: [PATCH V2 Resend 0/4] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues and timers

2012-11-26 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:35:52PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 09:03 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > If I understand correctly (though also suffering turkey OD), the idea is > > to offload work to more energy-efficient CPUs. > > This

Re: [PATCH V2 Resend 0/4] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues and timers

2012-11-26 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 20:30 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > On 6 November 2012 16:08, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > > This is V2 Resend of my sched_select_cpu() work. Resend because didn't > > > got much > > > attention on V2. Including m

Re: big.LITTLE MP status Nov 12, 2012

2012-11-12 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:46:52PM -0500, David Zinman wrote: > https://wiki.linaro.org/projects/big.LITTLE.MP > > > big.LITTLE MP v11 has been built: > http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2012-November/014335.html > > > Roadmap Cards > == > An epic roadmap card has been

Re: [PATCH][RESEND] power: opp: rcu reclaim

2012-10-03 Thread Paul E. McKenney
it. Looks good to me -- the only thing deferred is the freeing of memory. The only risk is that fast repeated invocation of opp_set_availability() could result in a lot of memory waiting for RCU grace periods, but call_rcu() has code to prevent this. So: Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney > Thanks,

Silas Boyd-Wickizer's patches

2012-08-15 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello! Silas posted a series of four patches that fix bugs where the online CPUs are iterated over without proper protection against CPUs coming online and going offline: 0/4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/3/416 1/4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/3/422 2/4: https://lkml.org/

Re: Tejun's modifications for CPU hotplug and workqueues

2012-07-26 Thread Paul E. McKenney
gt; > As a summary, we can see a reduction of the plug sequence compared to > the kernel v3.5 as kthreads are parked instead of being destroyed > > Regards, > Vincent > > On 21 July 2012 19:24, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:14:46PM -0700, P

Re: [GIT PULL] bit-LITTLE-MP-v4

2012-07-26 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:44:16AM +0100, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 25 July 2012 18:14, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > You are missing some fixes, please see below. I can also email you the > > updated patches, if that would be easier than pulling them from -rcu. > > &g

Re: [GIT PULL] bit-LITTLE-MP-v4

2012-07-25 Thread Paul E. McKenney
for entity load-tracking > sched: entity load-tracking load_avg_ratio > sched: load-tracking driven wakeup migration for HMP platforms > sched: Forced migration of high load task on HMP platforms > sched: Add HMP forced task migration ftrace event > > Paul E. McKenn

Re: Tejun's modifications for CPU hotplug and workqueues

2012-07-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:14:46PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello! > > Tejun just this week posted patches that park the workqueue kthreads, > which should reduce CPU-online latency under load. The easiest way to > get these patches appears to be to pull them from T

Re: Tejun's modifications for CPU hotplug and workqueues

2012-07-20 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello! Tejun just this week posted patches that park the workqueue kthreads, which should reduce CPU-online latency under load. The easiest way to get these patches appears to be to pull them from Tejun's git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git review-wq-hotplug They p

Re: Non-FOSS license acceptance by robots

2011-09-07 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:39:08AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011, Tony Mansson wrote: > > The Snowball s/w design team decided to use the debian mechanism for > > license acceptance of h/w-pack binaries, so there are pop-ups when you > > run Linaro-Media-Create. > > Is this a d

Re: Greetings!

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:25:20AM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to introduce myself to the linaro-kernel and linaro-dev lists as I > just started at Linaro today in the role of Kernel Working Group Technical > Lead and will be working closely with all of you on enhancing the

LPC2011 Scaling Micro Conf

2011-04-24 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello! Given the increasing numbers of CPUs on low-cost servers as well as the appearance of SMP hand-held battery-powered devices, Linux Plumbers 2011 will feature a Scaling track, with topics including the following: - What can the kernel do to help applications perform and scale better? - What

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread Paul E. McKenney
I favor sticking close to mainline unless it irreparably breaks something. Thanx, Paul On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:06:31AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As I've been working on the integration of the latest developments a

Re: [PATCH V4 1/5] arm/dt: add basic mx51 device tree support

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 aFt 11:03:55PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Jason Hui wrote: > > Hi, Grant, > > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Grant Likely > > wrote: > >> Hi Jason, > >> > >> Minor comments below. > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:59:41PM +0800, Ja

Re: Fw: [PATCH][RFC] CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE should default to N

2011-03-09 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:07:10AM +1300, Michael Hope wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Tom Gall wrote: > > To quote the GCC manual: > > > > -Os > > Optimize for size. -Os enables all -O2 optimizations that do not > > typically increase code size. It also performs further optimizations > >

Fw: [PATCH][RFC] CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE should default to N

2011-03-07 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Thoughts? Thanx, Paul - Forwarded message from Jesper Juhl - Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:49:58 +0100 (CET) From: Jesper Juhl To: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org cc: Andrew Morton , "Paul E. McKenney" , I

New "linaro-kernel" mailing list

2011-02-03 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello! We have created a new linaro-kernel mailing list for kernel-specific discussions. Of course, discussions that are of general interest should continue on linaro-dev. The new linaro-kernel mailing list is open to all comers, both inside and outside Linaro, and the archives are publicly acce

Re: RFC: Try moving kernel wg call to IRC?

2011-02-02 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:36:29AM +, Dave Martin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Paul E. McKenney > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > >> > >> > Hi th

Re: RFC: Try moving kernel wg call to IRC?

2011-01-31 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > Just a thought--- is it worth experimenting with running the kernel wg > > meeting on IRC instead of the conf call? > > > > Personally, I find IRC meetings _much_ more

Re: Rough notes from Kernel Consolidation meeting

2010-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:57:35PM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:35:52AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > I still have two questions about stuff that came up here: > > > > > > * SD/MMC performance: Is this about devic

Re: Rough notes from Kernel Consolidation meeting

2010-09-20 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:10:16PM +0100, Jamie Bennett wrote: > On 20 Sep 2010, at 17:19, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > o Requirements schedule > > > > o Requirements discussion, mostly in TSC. > > o Discussion and refinement at Orlando. > >

Re: Rough notes from Kernel Consolidation meeting

2010-09-20 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:37:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > o Kernel requirements > > (https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/TSC/MinutesToBeAgreed) > > > > I still have two questions about stuff t

Rough notes from Kernel Consolidation meeting

2010-09-20 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Bergmann, Dave Martin, Jeremy Kerr, John Stultz, Mounir Bsaibes, Nat Waddell, Nicolas Pitre, Steve Sakoman, Paul E. McKenney. o Kernel Consolidation -> Kernel. Job 1 will of course continue to be kernel consolidation, but will continue to take on other ker