From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>,
Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/33] nohz: Basic full dynticks interface
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:32:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130308143254.GE10714@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFTL4hzVwmRopLVso1cb+E+YT1rX25xeV1VLpC+0uxVcEQbExQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:45:12PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 2013/3/8 Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:35:47AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >> I think that "Full dynticks system" would express well what happens?
> >
> > Yeah, it probably doesn't really matter all that much in the end -
> > people will refer to this with different names like with other features
> > in Linux anyway. :-)
>
> Right, with some more or less precision, and different shades of
> metaphor or metonymy :)
>
> Dynticks, tickless, nohz, cpu isolation, pendulum clock noise free
> kernel, bare metal performance snort, walking alone and free through
> Latvian forests.
"... completely naked." You definitely need that too. :-)
Ok, put all those above in the Kconfig help text and ship it - people
will *now* know what it is.
LOL.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-08 2:08 [ANNOUNCE] 3.8-rc2-nohz2 Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 01/33] context_tracking: Add comments on interface and internals Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 02/33] context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 03/33] cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 20:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-08 20:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-08 21:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-01-08 20:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-09 13:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-09 13:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 04/33] cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based " Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 21:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-08 23:22 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 05/33] cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 06/33] cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-09 14:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-09 18:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 07/33] nohz: Basic full dynticks interface Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-11 14:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-20 16:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-07 23:41 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-03-07 23:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-03-08 10:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-08 13:45 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-03-08 14:32 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-03-08 16:55 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 08/33] nohz: Assign timekeeping duty to a non-full-nohz CPU Frederic Weisbecker
2013-02-15 11:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-20 15:57 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 09/33] nohz: Trace timekeeping update Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 10/33] nohz: Wake up full dynticks CPUs when a timer gets enqueued Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 11/33] rcu: Restart the tick on non-responding full dynticks CPUs Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 12/33] sched: Comment on rq->clock correctness in ttwu_do_wakeup() in nohz Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 13/33] sched: Update rq clock on nohz CPU before migrating tasks Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 14/33] sched: Update rq clock on nohz CPU before setting fair group shares Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 15/33] sched: Update rq clock on tickless CPUs before calling check_preempt_curr() Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 16/33] sched: Update rq clock earlier in unthrottle_cfs_rq Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 17/33] sched: Update clock of nohz busiest rq before balancing Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 10:20 ` Li Zhong
2013-03-07 23:51 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 18/33] sched: Update rq clock before idle balancing Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 19/33] sched: Update nohz rq clock before searching busiest group on load balancing Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 20/33] nohz: Move nohz load balancer selection into idle logic Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 21/33] nohz: Full dynticks mode Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 22/33] nohz: Only stop the tick on RCU nocb CPUs Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 23/33] nohz: Don't turn off the tick if rcu needs it Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 24/33] nohz: Don't stop the tick if posix cpu timers are running Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 25/33] nohz: Add some tracing Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 26/33] rcu: Don't keep the tick for RCU while in userspace Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 4:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 27/33] profiling: Remove unused timer hook Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 28/33] timer: Don't run non-pinned timer to full dynticks CPUs Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 29/33] sched: Use an accessor to read rq clock Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 30/33] sched: Debug nohz " Frederic Weisbecker
2013-03-20 23:23 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-04-11 16:47 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 31/33] sched: Remove broken check for skip clock update Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:11 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 32/33] sched: Update rq clock before rt sched average scale Frederic Weisbecker
2013-01-08 2:08 ` [PATCH 33/33] sched: Disable lb_bias feature for full dynticks Frederic Weisbecker
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