From: khilman@linaro•org (Kevin Hilman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:55:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n7zq53a.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131029060058.GD21983@codeaurora.org> (Stephen Boyd's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:00:58 -0700")
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora•org> writes:
> On 10/28, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora•org> writes:
>>
>> > This will allow the scheduler tick to be restarted if we're in
>> > full NOHZ mode.
>> >
>> > Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro•org>
>> > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail•com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora•org>
>>
>> Minor nit, but I'd prefer a more verbose changelog (I forget things
>> quickly and like to rely on changelogs for my memory.) Probably worth
>> adding something like: "By default, irq_work is tied to the tick
>> processing (update_process_times()) but in full NOHZ mode, no tick means
>> no IRQ work. In order for IRQ work to be done in full NOHZ mode, a
>> self-IPI is used to process IRQ work."
>>
>> Other than the changelog nit, patch looks good, feel free to add
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro•org>
>>
>> If Russell is OK with this, it can go to his patch system.
>>
>
> Fair enough. This is what I came up with. I'll send it off to the
> patch tracker in about 12 hours if nobody else has anymore
> comments.
Nice description, thanks for the respin.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-29 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-03 13:58 [tip:timers/core] ARM: Kconfig: allow full nohz CPU accounting tip-bot for Kevin Hilman
2013-10-16 12:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-18 16:37 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-10-25 9:38 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-28 1:32 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-10-28 16:18 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-10-28 18:25 ` [PATCH] ARM: Support arch_irq_work_raise() via self IPIs Stephen Boyd
2013-10-29 1:58 ` Kevin Hilman
2013-10-29 6:00 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-10-29 8:25 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-29 18:55 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2013-11-08 20:06 ` Olof Johansson
2013-11-08 20:45 ` Olof Johansson
2013-11-08 21:53 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-11-08 23:35 ` Olof Johansson
2013-11-08 23:39 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-11-09 0:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-09 0:07 ` Olof Johansson
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