Re: [RFC 0/3] sched/idle: run-time support for setting idle polling

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Sep 30 2015 - 13:32:55 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:16:10PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:48:35 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Ideally every cpuidle driver would get 'polling' as a
> > default state and the QoS constraints might select it if nothing else
> > matches.
>
> So, I didn't know we had support for polling from the idle
> thread via cpuidle. This solves the first part of the problem.

I'm not sure we do; I'm saying that's what we should do ;-)

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