Subject: Re: mmotm threatens ppc preemption again

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:29:55 -0700

On 03/31/2011 01:38 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 10:21 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> No, its the same accessors for both, since the need to distinguish them
>> hasn't really come up.  Could you put a "if (preemptable()) return;"
>> guard in your implementations?
> That would be a band-aid but would probably do the trick for now
> for !-rt, tho it wouldn't do the right thing for -rt... 

Hi Ben,

Have you had a chance to look at doing a workaround/fix for these power
problems?  I believe that's the only holdup to putting in the batching
changes.  I'd like to get them in for the next window if possible, since
they're a pretty significant performance win for us.

Thanks,
    J