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

[Viresh Kumar]

On 14 April 2014 17:17, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What causes this tick? I was under the impression that once there's a
> single task (not doing any syscalls) and the above issues are sorted, no
> more tick would happen.

This is what Frederic told me earlier:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/13/238
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