Re: [RFC PATCH 14/15] nohz_task: Clear nohz task attribute onexit()

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 05:30:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 16:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > 
> > Clear the nohz task attribute when a task exits, clear the cpu
> > mask and restart the tick if necessary.
> > 
> I'm not quite sure this all makes sense, I mean, we're going from 1 to 0
> tasks, right?

Not necessarily, other tasks can be on the runqueue while that nohz task
exits, or we can be alone in which case the tick might be stopped and
we need to restart it because rq->nr_running > 1 won't make much sense
anymore without the nohz task and if a new task gets enqueued, the tick
won't restart until a second one gets in.
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