linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/10] nohz: Switch nohz full timekeeper to dynticks idle on top of sysidle detection

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:17:53 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] nohz: Switch nohz full timekeeper to dynticks idle
 on top of sysidle detection

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:37:35PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> @@ -745,7 +747,7 @@ static bool can_stop_idle_tick(int cpu, struct tick_sched *ts)
>  		 * if there are full dynticks CPUs around
>  		 */
>  		if (tick_do_timer_cpu == cpu)
> -			return false;
> +			return rcu_sys_is_idle();
>  	}

I still feel its entirely upside down to rely on RCU for this...
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