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Message-ID: <20151117050403.GQ5184@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:04:03 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
Rafael Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:57:14PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 11/16/2015 6:53 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >Fair point. When in the five-jiffy throttling state, what can wake up
> >a CPU? In an earlier version of this proposal, the answer was "nothing",
> >but maybe that has changed.
>
> device interrupts are likely to wake the cpus.
OK, that I cannot help you with. But presumably if the interrupt handler
does a wakeup (or similar), that is deferred to the end of the throttling
interval? Timers are also deferred, including hrtimers?
Thanx, Paul
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