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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: update_rq_clock() must skip ONE update
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:56:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1396976162.4613.15.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140408155311.GP11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 17:53 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> OK; so as previously mentioned (Oct '13); I've entirely had it with
> skip_clock_update bugs, so I got angry and did the below.

Goody, kick butt take names ;-)

> Its not something I can merge, not least because it uses trace_printk(),
> but it should be usable to 1) demonstate the above actually helps and 2)
> make damn sure we got it right this time :-)

That would be nice, little cycle savers like this aren't supposed to
have nasty corner cases that can clean your clock (pun intended).

> I've not really stared at the output much yet; but when you select
> function_graph tracer; we get lovely things like:

I'll plug it into my quilt pile.

-Mike



      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-08 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-30  7:24 Mike Galbraith
2014-03-31  0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-31  4:20   ` Mike Galbraith
2014-03-31 16:00     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-01  3:10       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-01  3:26         ` Steven Rostedt
2014-03-31 16:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-31 18:27       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-03-31 18:37         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-01  3:28           ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-01  9:55             ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-03  8:02               ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-08 15:53                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-08 16:56                   ` Mike Galbraith [this message]

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