Re: [PATCH 06/32] nohz: Move idle ticks stats tracking out of nohzhandlers

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 17:52 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Idle ticks time tracking is merged into nohz stop/restart
> handlers. Pull it out into idle entry/exit handlers instead,
> so that nohz APIs is more idle independant. 

Are you trying to say:

Currently idle time tracking is part of the nohz state tracking,
separate this so that we can disable the tick while we're non-idle?

If so, how does idle time tracking work on a !NOHZ kernel, surely such
things can be idle too..
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