Re: needed lru_add_drain_all() change

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On 06/27/2012 02:12 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:09:31 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/27/2012 10:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>> Considering mlock and CPU pinning
>>>>> of realtime thread is very rare, it might be rather expensive solution.
>>>>> Unfortunately, I have no idea better than you suggested. :(
>>>>>
>>>>> And looking 8891d6da17, mlock's lru_add_drain_all isn't must.
>>>>> If it's really bother us, couldn't we remove it?
>>> "grep lru_add_drain_all mm/*.c".  They're all problematic.
>>
>>
>> Yeb but I'm not sure such system modeling is good.
>> Potentially, It could make problem once we use workqueue of other CPU.
> 
> whut?
> 
> My suggestion is that we switch lru_add_drain_all() to on_each_cpu()
> and delete schedule_on_each_cpu().  No workqueues.


Current problem is that RT thread doesn't yield his CPU so other tasks can't be scheduled in.
schedule_on_each_cpu uses system workqueue so if there are any user to try using
workqueue for the CPU(ex, schedule_work_on), he can make trouble, too.
So my question is I doubt such greedy RT thread modeling is good.

Do I miss something?

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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