On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:03 +0800, Li Zhong wrote: > > To my understanding, it is used to enable RCU user extended quiescent > state, so RCU on that cpu doesn't need scheduler ticks. And together > with some other code(already in 3.10), we are able to remove the ticks > in some cases (e.g. only 1 task running on the cpu, with some other > limitations).
Ok, sounds interesting. Once you fix the little cosmetic issue, I don't see any reason not to merge them as it's basically wiring up an existing feature (in that regard the patches are pretty straightforward) and I assume the overhead is only there when you enable it. Cheers, Ben. -- 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/
