On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:24 -0500, Woodruff, Richard wrote: > > This is the original ARM dyntick stuff, right ? > > Yes this is a version is not using clocksource. > > > The dyntick support on your architecture is broken. Why does it fiddle > > with the timer, when the system is not idle ? > > I can't yet run the test sequence on the latest kernel so I'll have to > wait to experiment. A brief look at the new code seems to show a > similar path but I need to actually run though it to understand better. > > > On the irq_resend() path handle_dynamic_tick() is still called as > before.
No. NOHZ makes handle_dynamic_tick() a NOP. handle_dynamic_tick() depends on CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ, which is not used when NOHZ is active. The problem could only arise, when something would disable/enable the timer interrupt. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/