From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: "Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org>
Subject: [Query]: tick-sched: why don't we stop tick when we are running idle task?
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 16:03:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKohpo=uT0oC+bZVJQPsoGLb-a4y4huYKtd1ayb4_+iH4906nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi Frederic,
File: kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Function: tick_nohz_full_stop_tick()
We are doing this:
if (!tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu) || is_idle_task(current))
return;
Which means: if a FULL_NO_HZ cpu is running idle task currently,
don't stop its tick..
I couldn't understand why. Can you please help here?
--
viresh
next reply other threads:[~2014-04-09 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 10:33 Viresh Kumar [this message]
2014-04-09 10:49 ` [Query]: tick-sched: why don't we stop tick when we are running idle task? Viresh Kumar
2014-04-10 14:39 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-04-11 10:04 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-04-11 14:53 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-04-11 15:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-11 16:38 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-04-14 9:48 ` Preeti Murthy
2014-04-14 9:51 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-04-14 11:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-14 11:42 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-04-14 11:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-14 11:52 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-04-14 12:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 6:04 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-04-15 9:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-04-15 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-15 10:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-23 11:12 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-05-09 8:44 ` Viresh Kumar
2014-05-13 23:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-05-22 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
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