Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: Always stop scheduler tick on adaptive-tick CPUs

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:27:09AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:21 PM Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 09:55:08AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Well I think we disagree on that assumption that if a nohz_full CPU is put
> > idle, it will remain there indefinitely. Nohz_full CPUs aren't really special
> > in this regard, they can sleep on an IO, wait for a short event just like
> > any other CPU.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> This means that the governor (or rather governors) will need to be
> modified to address the issue reported by Thomas.
> 
> Fortunately, I have a patch going in that direction too. :-)

Good to hear, please also Cc me on that one, thanks!