linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/12] housekeeping: Move housekeeping related code to its own file

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Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:16:16 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/12] housekeeping: Move housekeeping related code
 to its own file

On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 03:51 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> The housekeeping code is currently tied to the nohz code. As we are
> planning to make housekeeping independant from it, start with moving
> the relevant code to its own file.
> 
Why are nohz full and housekeeping being
decoupled from each other?

Won't people want to use them together?

What use case am I missing?

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