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> Subject: Re: [PATCH RT] nvdimm: make lane acquirement RT aware
>
> On 2019-03-08 00:07:41 [+], Liu, Yongxin wrote:
> > The lane
On 2019-03-08 00:07:41 [+], Liu, Yongxin wrote:
> The lane is critical resource which needs to be protected. One CPU can use
> only one
> lane. If CPU number is greater than the number of total lane, the lane can be
> shared
> among CPUs.
>
> In non-RT kernel, get_cpu() disable preemption b
> Currently, nvdimm driver isn't RT compatible.
> nd_region_acquire_lane() disables preemption with get_cpu() which
> causes "scheduling while atomic" spews on RT, when using fio to test
> pmem as block device.
>
> In this change, we replace get_cpu/put_cpu with local_lock_cpu/
> local_unlock_cp
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH RT] nvdimm: make lane acquirement RT aware
>
> On 2019-03-06 17:57:09 [+0800], Yongxin Liu wrote:
> > In this
On 2019-03-06 17:57:09 [+0800], Yongxin Liu wrote:
> In this change, we replace get_cpu/put_cpu with local_lock_cpu/
> local_unlock_cpu, and introduce per CPU variable "ndl_local_lock".
> Due to preemption on RT, this lock can avoid race condition for the
> same lane on the same CPU. When CPU numbe
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 2:05 AM Yongxin Liu wrote:
>
> Currently, nvdimm driver isn't RT compatible.
> nd_region_acquire_lane() disables preemption with get_cpu() which
> causes "scheduling while atomic" spews on RT, when using fio to test
> pmem as block device.
>
> In this change, we replace get_
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