Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] sched: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Wed Jan 03 2018 - 04:16:28 EST


Hi Peter,

On 22 December 2017 at 21:42, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 07:56:29PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> Right; but I figured we'd try and do it 'right' and see how horrible it
>> is before we try and do funny things.
>
> So now it should have a 32ms tick for up to .5s when the system goes
> completely idle.
>
> No idea how bad that is..

I have tested your branch but the timer doesn't seem to fire correctly
because i can still see blocked load in the use case i have run.
I haven't found the reason yet