Re: [RFC PATCH 04/15] nohz_task: Stop the tick when the nohz taskruns alone

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue Dec 21 2010 - 10:14:43 EST


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:34:39AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 14:22 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:35:58AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > > No, and that worries me, you don't even seem to know what the tick does
> > > and yet you're working on stopping it.
> >
> > Yeah, I've been focusing a lot on preemption and rcu because they seemed
> > to be the trickiest part of the thing, and I in the meantime I just forgot
> > the rest or tagged it too quickly as details to deal with later. And I
> > finally forgot them :)
> >
> > Bah it's a first take, it can only improve ;)
>
> Exactly!
>
> This is an RFC, a "release early, release often" approach. And you Cc'd
> all the right people. This is not something I expect to make into 2.6.38
> though ;-)


No, even before posting I was way from expecting it for .38 ;)
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