Re: [RFC] sched_tick with interrupts enabled

[Nick Piggin]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> > wake_priority_sleeper should not be called from rebalance_tick. That
> > code was OK where it was before, I think.
>
>
> wake_priority_sleeper() is necessary to establish the idle state.

No it isn't. It's just that if it returns nonzero, we know we are not
idle so we needn't test for that again.

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