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Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc64: Use low latency path to resume idle cpu

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From: Vijay Kumar <vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:44:24 -0500

> I had same thoughts initially but I had to go with this approach as
> scheduler_ipi is wrapped with irq_enter() and irq_exit(). Whereas POKE
> resumes the cpu in process context.
> 
> Comments in scheduler_ipi():
> 
>          * Not all reschedule IPI handlers call irq_enter/irq_exit, since
>          * traditionally all their work was done from the interrupt return
>          * path. Now that we actually do some work, we need to make sure
>          * we do call them.
>          *
>          * Some archs already do call them, luckily irq_enter/exit nest
>          * properly.
>          *
>          * Arguably we should visit all archs and update all handlers,
>          * however a fair share of IPIs are still resched only so this would
>          * somewhat pessimize the simple resched case.
>          */
>         irq_enter();
> 

I still think we should be able to fake the state such that this
direct schedule_ipi() call will work.

I could be wrong :)

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Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc64: Use low latency path to resume idle cpu David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-07-20 22:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc64: Use low latency path to resume idle cpu Vijay Kumar <vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com> - 2017-07-21 04:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc64: Use low latency path to resume idle cpu David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-07-21 05:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc64: Use low latency path to resume idle cpu Vijay Kumar <vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com> - 2017-07-21 05:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc64: Use low latency path to resume idle cpu David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-07-21 05:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] sparc64: Use low latency path to resume idle cpu Vijay Kumar <vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com> - 2017-07-21 06:20 +0200

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