Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle path

[Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com>]

on 2017/9/1 13:57, Quan Xu wrote:
> on 2017/8/29 20:45, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:46:37AM +0000, Yang Zhang wrote:
>>> Add poll in do_idle. For UP VM, if there are running task, it will not
>>> goes into idle path, so we only enable poll in SMP VM.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com>
>> Broken SoB chain.
>   Peter,  I can't follow 'Broken SoB chain'.. could you explain more 
> about it?
>
     Peter, Ping..

Quan



>   -Quan
>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/idle.c b/kernel/sched/idle.c
>>> index 6c23e30..b374744 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/sched/idle.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/sched/idle.c
>>> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static noinline int __cpuidle cpu_idle_poll(void)
>>>   }
>>>     /* Weak implementations for optional arch specific functions */
>>> +void __weak arch_cpu_idle_poll(void) { }
>>>   void __weak arch_cpu_idle_prepare(void) { }
>>>   void __weak arch_cpu_idle_enter(void) { }
>> And not a word on why we need a new arch hook. What's wrong with
>> arch_cpu_idle_enter() for instance?
>