Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] timers: keep sleep length updated as needed

2017-10-16 Thread Li, Aubrey
On 2017/10/17 7:58, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, October 16, 2017 8:46:41 AM CEST Li, Aubrey wrote: >> On 2017/10/14 8:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:20:31 AM CEST Aubrey Li wrote: sleep length indicates how long we'll be idle. Currently, it's updat

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] timers: keep sleep length updated as needed

2017-10-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, October 16, 2017 8:46:41 AM CEST Li, Aubrey wrote: > On 2017/10/14 8:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:20:31 AM CEST Aubrey Li wrote: > >> sleep length indicates how long we'll be idle. Currently, it's updated > >> only when tick nohz enters. These patch

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] timers: keep sleep length updated as needed

2017-10-15 Thread Li, Aubrey
On 2017/10/14 8:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:20:31 AM CEST Aubrey Li wrote: >> sleep length indicates how long we'll be idle. Currently, it's updated >> only when tick nohz enters. These patch series make a new requirement >> with tick, so we should keep sleep le

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] timers: keep sleep length updated as needed

2017-10-13 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, September 30, 2017 9:20:31 AM CEST Aubrey Li wrote: > sleep length indicates how long we'll be idle. Currently, it's updated > only when tick nohz enters. These patch series make a new requirement > with tick, so we should keep sleep length updated as needed So what exactly would be t

[RFC PATCH v2 5/8] timers: keep sleep length updated as needed

2017-09-30 Thread Aubrey Li
sleep length indicates how long we'll be idle. Currently, it's updated only when tick nohz enters. These patch series make a new requirement with tick, so we should keep sleep length updated as needed --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/time/t