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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 16:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Check from the timer interrupt that we are a nohz task running
> alone in the CPU and stop the tick if this is the case.
> 
Does this verify that the tick has no other work to do?

I see no list of things the tick does and a checklist that everything it
does is indeed superfluous.
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