Re: nohz problem with idle time on old hardware

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 21:26:51 +0530
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> When HRES isn't enabled and NOHZ isn't enabled as well, in that
> case we should stick to the periodic code from tick-common.c and
> the oneshot options of tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() or
> hrtimer_switch_to_hres() shouldn't be used. And so, we still need
> those checks, as per my understanding. :)

The one thing we can agree on is that the current code is wrong :-)

> 
> Lets see what others have for this discussion :)

Yeah, those that actually wrote this code should have a say in this.

-- Steve
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