[PATCH 5/7] sched/isolation: Offload residual 1Hz scheduler tick

2018-02-20 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
When a CPU runs in full dynticks mode, a 1Hz tick remains in order to keep the scheduler stats alive. However this residual tick is a burden for bare metal tasks that can't stand any interruption at all, or want to minimize them. The usual boot parameters "nohz_full=" or "isolcpus=nohz" will now

[PATCH 5/7] sched/isolation: Offload residual 1Hz scheduler tick

2018-02-20 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
When a CPU runs in full dynticks mode, a 1Hz tick remains in order to keep the scheduler stats alive. However this residual tick is a burden for bare metal tasks that can't stand any interruption at all, or want to minimize them. The usual boot parameters "nohz_full=" or "isolcpus=nohz" will now