Re: [RFC PATCH 00/15] Nohz task support

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 05:35:51PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 16:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Any comments are welcome.
> 
> Not a single patch touches any of the accounting work done by the tick,
> current NO_HZ more is _barely_ sufficient for the nr_running==0 case, it
> definitely needs work for nr_running==1.

I'm not sure what you mean. Is it about timekeeping? Note we keep a cpu to
handle that. Hmm that makes me think, if it goes idle we may be screwed...
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