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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	pjt@google.com, paul.mckenney@linaro.org, tj@kernel.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com,
	linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org,
	pdsw-power-team@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 Resend 4/4] timer: Migrate running timer
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:06:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130522090643.GB18810@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKohpokfKPQ3EhMf3WB8koXuH2rF6QoejwNOTw08X+XfnVhpEg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:04:16PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> So, this is the clean draft for the idea I had.. (Naming is poor for
> now):
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h
> index 8c5a197..ad00ebe 100644
> --- a/include/linux/timer.h
> +++ b/include/linux/timer.h
> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct timer_list {
> 
>         void (*function)(unsigned long);
>         unsigned long data;
> +       int wait_for_migration_to_complete;

If you play games with the alignment constraints of struct tvec_base you
can get extra low bits to play with for TIMER_FLAG_MASK. See struct
pool_workqueue for similar games.

That would avoid the struct bloat and I suppose make tglx happy :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06 10:34 [PATCH V2 Resend 0/4] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues and timers Viresh Kumar
2012-11-06 10:38 ` [PATCH V2 Resend 1/4] sched: Create sched_select_cpu() to give preferred CPU for power saving Viresh Kumar
2012-11-06 10:38 ` [PATCH V2 Resend 2/4] timer: hrtimer: Don't check idle_cpu() before calling get_nohz_timer_target() Viresh Kumar
2012-11-06 10:38 ` [PATCH V2 Resend 3/4] workqueue: Schedule work on non-idle cpu instead of current one Viresh Kumar
2012-11-26 17:15   ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-27  5:19     ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 12:54       ` Vincent Guittot
2013-01-04 11:11       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-04 15:09         ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-07  9:58           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-07 13:28             ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-07 17:59               ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-07 22:29                 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-08  4:03                   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-07 15:04             ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-07 15:40               ` Amit Kucheria
2013-01-07 18:07               ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-09 18:49                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-10  5:04                   ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 13:26   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27 13:48     ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 13:59       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27 14:55         ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-27 15:04           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27 15:35             ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-06 10:38 ` [PATCH V2 Resend 4/4] timer: Migrate running timer Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 13:47   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-20 15:13     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-09 14:52       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-24 11:22         ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-13  9:19           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-13 10:35             ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-05-22  8:34               ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-22  9:06                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-05-22  9:23                   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-31 10:49                 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-06-18  4:51                   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-07-24  9:17                     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-08-07  9:55                       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-10-04 12:39                         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-10-23  5:55                           ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-26 15:00 ` [PATCH V2 Resend 0/4] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues and timers Viresh Kumar
2012-11-26 16:40   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-26 17:03     ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-26 17:35       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-26 19:03         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-26 19:17           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27  6:25     ` Viresh Kumar

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