Re: [RFC] Make need_resched() return true when rcu_urgent_qs requested

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 08:57:24 EST




On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 14:55 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 05:34:57AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > But KVM defeats this by checking need_resched() before invoking
> > cond_resched().
>
> That's not wrong or even uncommon I think.

Right. Which is precisely why I baulked at just adding the extra check
in the KVM loop, and wanted to talk about making need_resched()
consistent with what cond_resched() actually does. :)

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