On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 05:19:27PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > + /* > + * Request rescheduling unless we are in full dynticks mode. > + * We would eventually get pre-empted without this, and if > + * there's another task waiting, it would run; but by > + * explicitly requesting the reschedule, we may reduce the > + * latency. We could directly call schedule() here as well, > + * but since our caller is the standard place where schedule() > + * is called, we defer to the caller. > + * > + * A more substantive approach here would be to use a struct > + * completion here explicitly, and complete it when we shut > + * down dynticks, but since we presumably have nothing better > + * to do on this core anyway, just spinning seems plausible. > + */ > + if (!tick_nohz_tick_stopped()) > + set_tsk_need_resched(current);
This is broken.. and it would be really good if you don't actually need to do this.
