Re: [RFC PATCH 04/15] nohz_task: Stop the tick when the nohz taskruns alone

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 14:22 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:35:58AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > No, and that worries me, you don't even seem to know what the tick does
> > and yet you're working on stopping it.
> 
> Yeah, I've been focusing a lot on preemption and rcu because they seemed
> to be the trickiest part of the thing, and I in the meantime I just forgot
> the rest or tagged it too quickly as details to deal with later. And I
> finally forgot them :)
> 
> Bah it's a first take, it can only improve ;)

Exactly!

This is an RFC, a "release early, release often" approach. And you Cc'd
all the right people. This is not something I expect to make into 2.6.38
though ;-)

-- Steve


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