From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>,
frederic@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: per-cpu rcuc kthread are created only when rcutree.use_softirq=0
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 14:17:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YdL3Vx6pq6YCL1kx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220101164426.GA2408833@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>
On 2022-01-01 08:44:26 [-0800], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:05:10AM +0800, Zqiang wrote:
> > In non-RT kernel, if the RCU_BOOST is enabled, the per-cpu rcuc
> > kthread will be created, however under the rcutree.use_softirq=1,
> > the RCU core processing only in softirq context, the rcuc kthread
> > doesn't do anything, so remove RCU_BOOST interference.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
>
> Looks sane to me, but adding Sebastian on CC for his thoughts.
Yes, it makes sense. invoke_rcu_core_kthread() is only invoked for
!use_softirq so it makes to create the threads based on this condition.
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Thanx, Paul
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-03 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-28 16:05 Zqiang
2022-01-01 16:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-01-03 13:17 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2022-01-03 14:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-01-04 8:38 ` Zhang, Qiang1
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