Re: [PATCH 4.19 05/87] sched/core: Dont skip remote tick for idle CPUs

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 04 2020 - 12:17:19 EST


On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:15:59PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > [ Upstream commit 488603b815a7514c7009e6fc339d74ed4a30f343 ]
> >
> > This will be used in the next patch to get a loadavg update from
> > nohz cpus. The delta check is skipped because idle_sched_class
> > doesn't update se.exec_start.
>
> I don't see the next patch queued for 4.19-stable. AFAICT this does
> not fix anything without the subsequent patch?

Ah, good catch, that patch only made it into 5.4.y and 5.5.y, I'll drop
this from the 4.19 queue, thanks.

greg k-h