Re: [PATCH]tickless: Fix tick nohz timer irq0 fail to increaase

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:49:05 -0500
"Youquan,Song" <youquan.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tickless is disabled by nohz=off, which is used in OSVs.

it is? I doubt anyone wants to normally disable tickless, the power
cost is just too high....

> But in
> current kernel, if tickless is disabled, the timer irq0 will not
> increase.

why is this a problem? 

> Because the timer event handler should be
> tick_handle_periodic, but actually event handler keep as
> tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast which is used in tickless. The root
> cause is that it is default to enable high resolution timer which
> will force to oneshot broadcast mode.

using local apic in one shot mode is not a problem, I'd in fact call it
a feature...


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