From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
quchaosheng000406@163.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/doc: add a preemption model overview
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:45:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v77s2f02.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922083101.99685-1-quchaosheng000406@163.com>
Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com> writes:
> The scheduler documentation describes the individual scheduling classes
> and various tuning knobs, but there is nothing that describes the
> preemption models themselves. The only place where they are documented
> is the kernel-parameters entry for "preempt=", which explains the boot
> time parameter but not the models it selects.
>
> Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-preemption.rst, covering the four
> models, how a scheduling request is honoured under each of them, and
> which of them can be selected at runtime.
>
> The overview follows the scheduling request: a wakeup makes a task
> runnable, the scheduler decides what has to leave the CPU and sets
> TIF_NEED_RESCHED or TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY on it, and the preemption model
> decides where that request is honoured.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Quchaosheng <quchaosheng000406@163.com>
> ---
I have applied these two patches. However: can you please send a
followup with a suitable SPDX line for your new sched-preemption.rst
file?
Thanks,
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-26 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 8:31 Quchaosheng
2026-09-22 8:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: kernel-parameters: fix a truncated sentence for preempt=lazy Quchaosheng
2026-09-23 7:31 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-09-23 7:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/doc: add a preemption model overview Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-09-26 15:45 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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