Re: [RFC GIT PULL] printk: Full dynticks support for 3.8

2012-12-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
Linus, Do you have any objections in pulling this for 3.8? I added the entire git diff below. Note, this has been in linux-next for a while too. -- Steve On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:42 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Linus, > > We are currently working on extending the dynticks mode to

Re: [RFC GIT PULL] printk: Full dynticks support for 3.8

2012-12-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
Linus, Do you have any objections in pulling this for 3.8? I added the entire git diff below. Note, this has been in linux-next for a while too. -- Steve On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 15:42 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: Linus, We are currently working on extending the dynticks mode to broader

[RFC GIT PULL] printk: Full dynticks support for 3.8

2012-12-17 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
Linus, We are currently working on extending the dynticks mode to broader contexts than just idle. Under some conditions on a busy CPU, the tick can be avoided (no need of preemption for one task running, no need of RCU state machine maintainance in userspace, etc...). The most popular

[RFC GIT PULL] printk: Full dynticks support for 3.8

2012-12-17 Thread Frederic Weisbecker
Linus, We are currently working on extending the dynticks mode to broader contexts than just idle. Under some conditions on a busy CPU, the tick can be avoided (no need of preemption for one task running, no need of RCU state machine maintainance in userspace, etc...). The most popular