Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Avoid spurious freezer wakeups

From: Elliot Berman
Date: Tue Sep 26 2023 - 18:18:02 EST




On 9/26/2023 1:56 PM, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:02:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 04:17:33PM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
>>>
>>> This issue is hurting the performance of our stable 6.1 releases. Does
>>> it make sense to backport these patches into stable branches once they
>>> land in mainline? I would assume we want to fix the perf regression
>>> there too?
>>
>> Note that these patches are in tip/sched/core, slated for the next merge
>> window.
>
> We can wait, no problem. I just wanted to make sure we also patch stable
> if needed. Elliot, would you be able to send a backport of your patches
> to stable once they land in mainline on the next merge window?

Yep, happy to send it. There's a trivial conflict to resolve w/older
kernels not having the new guard(...)(...) macros.

>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> --
> Carlos Llamas