On 6 November 2014 22:54, Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> wrote: > We did not need to housekeeper in the dynticks idle case. What is so > different about dynticks busy?
We do have a running task here and so the stats are important.. > I may not have the complete picture of the timer tick processing in my > mind these days (it has been a lots of years since I did any work there > after all) but as far as my arguably simplistic reading of the code goes I > do not see why a housekeeper would be needed there. The load is constant > and known in the dynticks busy case as it is in the dynticks idle case. I tried to initiate a thread on similar stuff, might be helpful: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/22/131 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
