| Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:45:29 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/32] Nohz cpusets v2 (adaptive tickless kernel) |
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:33:46PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> writes: > > > There are still a lot of things to handle. Especially about > > what is done by scheduler_tick() but we also need to: > > > > - completely handle cputime accounting (need to find every "reader" > > of cputime and flush cputimes for all of them). > > -handle perf > > - handle irqtime finegrained accounting > > - handle ilb load balancing > > - etc... > > - add more arch support :) > > For ARM, I've started hacking things into place and have some > preliminary patches to add ARM support for the new IPI, syscall support, > exception hooks, etc.[1] > > This is enough to get some basic things running and test the nohz > cpusets functionality on ARM, and for others to start trying it out. > > For anyone interested in collaborating on ARM support, my > work-in-progress branch is below[1] based on Frederic's cpuset-v2 > branch. Patches and testing welcome. > > Kevin > > [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux.git wip/arm-nohz-cpusets
Nice! Thanks for working on this. You may want to work with Geoff Levand who's working on the ARM port too.
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