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Date:	Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:37:49 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, josh@...htriplett.org,
	niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	darren@...art.com, sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC nohz_full 3/7] nohz_full: Add per-CPU idle-state
 tracking

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 04:19:20PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This commit adds the code that updates the rcu_dyntick structure's
> new fields to track the per-CPU idle state based on interrupts and
> transitions into and out of the idle loop (NMIs are ignored because NMI
> handlers cannot cleanly read out the time anyway).  This code is similar
> to the code that maintains RCU's idea of per-CPU idleness, but differs
> in that RCU treats CPUs running in user mode as idle, where this new
> code does not.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
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