[PATCH v3 0/1] powerpc: Enable dynamic preemption
Shrikanth Hegde
sshegde at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jan 21 18:25:44 AEDT 2025
On 1/6/25 10:49, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> Now that preempt=lazy patches[1] are in powerpc-next tree, sending out the
> patch to support dynamic preemption based on DYNAMIC_KEY.
>
> base: powerpc-next
>
+ankur, sebastian; sorry for not cc'ing earlier.
> Once the arch supports static inline calls, it would be needed to
> evaluate to see if that gives better performance.
>
> v2->v3:
> - fixed a build error reported by linux test robot by including jump
> label header.
>
> v1->v2:
> - Instead of copying asm-generic preempt.h content include it in
> arch/asm preempt.h. (Christophe Leroy)
> - Merge the patches into one patch (Christophe Leroy)
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241125042212.1522315-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com/
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250102191856.499424-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com/
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/173572211264.1875638.9927288574435880962.b4-ty@linux.ibm.com/
>
> Shrikanth Hegde (1):
> powerpc: Enable dynamic preemption
>
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/preempt.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c | 6 +++++-
> arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 6 +++++-
> arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/preempt.h
>
Hi maddy, mpe, christophe.
Now that preempt=lazy is merged upstream, is would be start to enable
dynamic preemption to make use of all preemption models at runtime.
Are there any concerns with this patch?
Thanks.
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