Re: [PATCH RFC nohz_full 0/8] Provide infrastructure for full-systemidle

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 08:45:17 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:42:26AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 03:24:42PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Just to make sure I understand... You are saying that it is OK for
> > NO_HZ_FULL to shut down timekeeping if all CPUs are idle, even if some
> > of them are taking NMIs from time to time, right?
>
> Yeah.. its what we currently do and I don't see any reason to have
> NO_HZ_FULL behave differently there.

Whew!!! ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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