Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/11] Create fast idle path for short idle periods

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 12 2017 - 13:47:09 EST


On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:56:51AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Very good, I have queued the patch below. I left out the removal of
> the export as I need to work out why the export was there. If it turns
> out not to be needed, I will remove the related ones as well.

'git grep rcu_idle_enter' shows no callers other than
kernel/sched/idle.c. Which seems a clear indication its not needed.

You also have to ask yourself, do I want joe module author to ever call
this. To which I suspect the answer is: hell no ;-)