* Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thread Migration Preemption
>
> This patch adds the ability to protect critical sections from
> migration to another CPU without disabling preemption.
>
> This will be useful to minimize the amount of preemption disabling for
> the -rt patch. [...]
unfortunately this abstraction has a number of fundamental
disadvantages. (and hence the -rt patch does not make use of this
facility)
firstly, its effects on load-balancing are quite brutal: it disables
migration to another CPU, hence disturbing SMP load-balancing. It also
adds an unplannable O(N) overhead into the load-balancer.
secondly, it has similar problems as preempt_disable(): it's opaque (not
attached to a data structure) and thus it does not truly map the per-CPU
data structure in any explicit way. It's little more than a per-task BKL
for per-CPU data structures.
so in -rt we resisted the disable-migration approach from the early days
on and are using two approaches to 'map' per-cpu data structures to
PREEMPT_RT: firstly the use of PER_CPU_LOCKED data structures (which
attach a per-cpu sleeping lock to per_cpu() data structures) - these are
relatively easy first-approach conversions. As a second approach, if
performance matters, the use of true atomic data structures.
Ingo
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