linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]tickless: Fix tick nohz timer irq0 fail to increaase

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Message-ID: <20100104220221.GB16579@youquan-linux.bj.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:02:21 -0500
From:	"Youquan,Song" <youquan.song@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Youquan,Song" <youquan.song@...ux.intel.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	kent.liu@...el.com, chaohong.guo@...el.com, youquan.song@...el.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"jens.axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]tickless: Fix tick nohz timer irq0 fail to increaase

> Disabling nohz is funny indeed, one wonders why he does that.
I do not have real case for it. I look at nohz=off because 
1. OSV has such release notes to explain how to disable tickless.  
2. with some OSV config + latest kernel, it will result in kernel 
oops and it config disable tickless. I have reported it to acpi maillist
before.

Thanks.

-Youquan

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