Re: [accounting regression since rc1] scheduler updates

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:09:22AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > You should just be using idle notifiers instead instead of adding more 
> > and more custom hooks (like NOHZ has already) x86-64 still has them 
> > and there is a old patch around to add them to i386.
> 
> these are specially placed callbacks that we want to call from certain 
> ACPI codepaths but not from all of them.

Because you believe TSC only stops in C2 and C3? That's not correct on
all systems.

-Andi
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