[PATCH 09/13] powerpc/64s: cpuidle set polling before enabling irqs

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jun 14 21:40:52 AEST 2017


Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:

> local_irq_enable can cause interrupts to be taken which could
> take significant amount of processing time. The idle process
> should set its polling flag before this, so another process that
> wakes it during this time will not have to send an IPI.
>
> Expand the TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG coverage to as large as possible.
>
> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 4 +++-
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I don't think the cpuidle folks are really interested in these changes,
but we should Cc them to be polite.

Can you resend patches 9, 10, 11 with a subject like:

  "cpuidle: powernv: Set polling ..."

And Cc the cpuidle folks:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/cpuidle
rjw at rjwysocki.net
daniel.lezcano at linaro.org
linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

cheers


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