Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] workqueue: Schedule work on non-idle cpu insteadof current one

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Viresh.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:34:05PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> - A cpu has programmed a timer and is IDLE now.
> - CPU gets into interrupt handler due to timer and queues a work. As the CPU is
>   currently IDLE, we can queue this work to some other CPU.

I'm still a bit confused, if the CPU is already running the IRQ
handler, the CPU is not idle by definition.  What am I missing here?

Thanks.

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tejun
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