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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Lianwei Wang <lianwei.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: idle: move need_resched check after function rcu_idle_enter
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:05:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151123130533.GY3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFUiJjCcGriSzOZe7BGNb-crrdY5NdUwiWGAO8zM+L_PDr82w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 01:02:02AM -0800, Lianwei Wang wrote:
> The rcu_idle_endter may call wakeup_softirqd to set the need resched
> flag on idle process. But if we don't check it after that, then the
> cpu will enter idle state with RESCHED flag set and can not be woken
> up by wakeup/resched call anymore.

Fair enough; but which cpuidle driver did you observe that with? All the
ones I checked test for need_resched again after this.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-23 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-21  9:02 Lianwei Wang
2015-11-23 13:05 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-11-23 17:42   ` Lianwei Wang
2015-11-23 17:57     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-23 20:02       ` Lianwei Wang
2015-11-23 17:59 ` Peter Zijlstra

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