Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-12 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
2013/4/10 Ingo Molnar : >> Agreed. I mentioned that in the pull request. It's again due to an >> arbitrary Kconfig limitation. The following: >> >> config X >> select Y >> >> doesn't work if Y is part of a Kconfig "choice". >> I have a patch that fixes in Kconfig, will submit it to Mich

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > 2013/4/8 Ingo Molnar : > > I pulled it into tip:timers/nohz and will push it out if it passes testing > > because > > I like the improvements - but there's still a few things missing I think. > > > > Firstly, I performed this "how are users exposed to this new fea

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-10 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
2013/4/8 Ingo Molnar : > I pulled it into tip:timers/nohz and will push it out if it passes testing > because > I like the improvements - but there's still a few things missing I think. > > Firstly, I performed this "how are users exposed to this new feature" test: > >git checkout v3.9-rc6 >

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > I don't know which tree you are using. But if you have that patch in: This is tip timers/nohz > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git/commit/?h=3.9-rc1-nohz1&id=451128553e5e827dccc6cbcd24238470ec693d90 > looking

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-10 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
2013/4/4 Christoph Lameter : > It seems that nohz still has no effect. > > 3.9-rc5 + patches. Affinity of init set to 0,1 so no > tasks are running on 9. The "latencytest" used here is part of my > lldiag-0.15 toolkit. > > First test without any special kernel parameters. nohz off right? > > $ nice

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Ingo, > > This set addresses your review concerning the Kconfig layout. > Please note two things here that derive from what we agreed > on due to technical limitations: > > * Now the full dynticks Kconfig is not hidden anymore behind its > high level dependencies

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Here is the last version I posted over a year ago. You were CCed and > provided very useful feedback: > > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.0/01291.html Ah. yes I remember now. > Based on your feedback I re-spun them but never gotte

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-04 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Hi, [ Sorry for dropping LKML on my previous email. It was caused by replying from my smartphone. Adding everyone back now ] On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > The vmstat work item leaving a timer running on the CPU, per

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] nohz: Kconfig layout improvements

2013-04-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
It seems that nohz still has no effect. 3.9-rc5 + patches. Affinity of init set to 0,1 so no tasks are running on 9. The "latencytest" used here is part of my lldiag-0.15 toolkit. First test without any special kernel parameters. nohz off right? $ nice -5 taskset -c 9 latencytest CPUs: Freq=2.9