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
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
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
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
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
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 discussion that followed.
This version of the patch series cleans up a number of areas that were
a little dodgy in the previous
