On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:51:26PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > We need the default timekeeping CPU to be able to receive IPIs sent > from full dynticks CPUs when they wake up from full system idle state. > > Therefore we need an entrypoint from the scheduler IPI so that the > need to poll on timekeeping duty is re-evaluated from irq_exit(). > > In order to achieve this, lets take the scheduler IPI everytime as long > as there is at least one full dynticks CPU around. Full dynticks CPUs > are interested too in taking scheduler IPIs to reevaluate their tick.
I should probably read the other patches in this series, but the above makes my brain go *beeeep* and throw an error. -- 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/