Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/32] Nohz cpusets v2 (adaptive tickless kernel)

From: Kevin Hilman
Date: Fri Mar 30 2012 - 10:10:47 EST


Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 02:45 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:33:46PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> > For anyone interested in collaborating on ARM support, my
>> > work-in-progress branch is below[1] based on Frederic's cpuset-v2
>> > branch. Patches and testing welcome.
>> >
>> > [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux.git wip/arm-nohz-cpusets
>>
>> Nice! Thanks for working on this. You may want to work with Geoff Levand who's working
>> on the ARM port too.
>
> You can see my work here:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/nohz.git

Great! Will have a closer look.

A quick look suggests we've done almost exactly the same thing. Guess
that's a good sign. :)

> I also put a simple test I got from Frederic here:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/nohz-tests.git

Great, having a common test to compare results was going to be my next
question. I'll start playing with these next week. Thanks.

> Feel free to expand on either!

> Kevin, I'll take a look at your work, I guess it has the same things as
> mine.

Yeah, we've done basically the same thing. I see though that you've
also already handled some RCU idle cases that I hadn't.

Since you're a little further than me, I'll switch you yours and
start using that as the base

> Will you be at the Collaboration Summit next week?

Unfortunately, no.

Kevin
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