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

From Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle path
Date 2017-09-01 08:00 +0200
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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 more about it?

   -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?

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[RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle path Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-08-29 14:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-08-29 16:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] sched/idle: Add poll before enter real idle  path Quan Xu <quan.xu0@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2017-08-29 16:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-08-30 09:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] x86/paravirt: Add pv_idle_ops to paravirt ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] Documentation: Add three sysctls for smart idle poll Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] Documentation: Add three sysctls for smart  idle poll "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2017-08-29 19:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 2/7] KVM guest: register kvm_idle_poll for pv_idle_ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 4/7] x86/paravirt: Add update in x86/paravirt pv_idle_ops Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
  [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/idle: update poll time when wakeup from idle Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/idle: update poll time when wakeup from  idle Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-08-29 14:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] sched/idle: update poll time when wakeup from  idle Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> - 2017-08-29 14:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2017-08-29 15:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-08-29 16:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2017-08-29 16:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-29 16:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 08:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 09:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 10:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] x86/idle: add halt poll support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-08-29 17:00 +0200

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