On 07/26, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 15:40 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > > This patch disables preemption during complete(), since we call > > > > schedule() directly afterwards, so it will correctly enter > > > > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. This speeds up kthread creation/binding during > > > > cpu hotplug significantly. > > > > tglx has patches that make the kthread create/destroy stuff from hotplug > > go away.. that seems like the better approach. > > Right. That cpu hotplug setup/teardown stuff is ugly.
Could you cc me if you send these patches? > > The comment doesn't really make that clear. > > Right, the comment is crap. It has nothing to do with kthread_bind() > and stuff. The whole purpose is to avoid the pointless preemption > after wakeup. Yes, but this "avoid the preemption after wakeup" can actually help kthread_bind()->wait_task_inactive() ? This reminds me, Peter had a patch which teaches wait_task_inactive() to use sched_in/sched_out notifiers to avoid the polling... Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/