Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock

2019-02-13 Thread Petr Mladek
On Tue 2019-02-12 17:25:53, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > From: Julia Cartwright > > In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq > context even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker > spin_lock to a raw_spin_lock. > > This is only acceptable to do because

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock

2018-10-09 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2018-10-05 20:10:35 [+0200], Andrea Parri wrote: > > Clearly not my topic..., but out of curiosity: What do you mean by > "well-bounded" and "minimal"? Can you maybe point me to some doc.? it means that the lock is not held for an arbitrary amount of time like by processing a list with thous

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock

2018-10-05 Thread Andrea Parri
Hi Julia, On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 09:03:51PM +, Julia Cartwright wrote: > In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq > context even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker > spin_lock to a raw_spin_lock. > > This is only acceptable to do because the work per

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock

2018-10-05 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2018-09-28 21:03:51 [+], Julia Cartwright wrote: > In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq > context even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker > spin_lock to a raw_spin_lock. > > This is only acceptable to do because the work performed under the lock