Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 May 2013 16:15:05 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [tip:timers/urgent] tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick( ) if the cpu is offline |
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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 04:06:58PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > No, it's not about restarting the tick. It's about not falling into > the nohz functions when the cpu is about to die. Just leave it alone, > that's what the patch does.
Yep, this is how I saw it too: why even fiddle when the tick when we're going offline anyway. We can look at the tick when we come back online and enter idle.
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