On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:55:36PM +0530, Vatika Harlalka wrote: > This patchset is for offloading task_tick() to a remote housekeeping > cpu. The larger aim is to stop ticks on nohz_full cpus. For this, extra > work must be done by housekeeping cpus. So, task_tick is called from a > delayed workqueue for nohz_full cpus and the work is requeued every second > for those nohz_full cpus whose ticks are stopped while they are busy. In > the rest of the cases it will lead to redundant accounting. To facilitate > this, a new function tick_nohz_remote_tick_stopped is added to indicate > whether ticks are stopped on a remote cpu. > Tick related code in core.c is moved to tick.c
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