Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched: Don't account tickless CPU load on tick
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 19 2016 - 08:09:12 EST
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 05:01:28PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> The cpu load update on tick doesn't care about dynticks and as such is
> buggy when occuring on nohz ticks (including idle ticks) as it resets
> the jiffies snapshot that was recorded on nohz entry. We eventually
> ignore the potentially long tickless load that happened before the
> tick.
I don't get it, how can we call scheduler_tick() while
tick_nohz_tick_stopped() ?