Re: 回复: [PATCH 01/10] tick/nohz: Prevent tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() from returning negative value

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 16 2021 - 12:26:20 EST


On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:08:08PM +0000, Zhou Ti (x2019cwm) wrote:
> But I don't think it's a good idea to handle this in callers, because
> logically the function shouldn't return negative values. Returning 0
> directly would allow idle governors to get another chance to select
> again.


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