[Query]: tick-sched: why don't we stop tick when we are running idle task?

[Viresh Kumar]

Hi Frederic,

File: kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Function: tick_nohz_full_stop_tick()

We are doing this:

if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu) || is_idle_task(current))
        return;

Which means: if a FULL_NO_HZ cpu is running idle task currently,
don't stop its tick..

I couldn't understand why. Can you please help here?

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viresh
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