linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] sched/isolation: Residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload

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Message-ID: <20171219164950.io3jswz4llanu3eq@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:49:50 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] sched/isolation: Residual 1Hz scheduler tick offload

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:38:39AM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> And the term RT has been heavily abused by marketing folks to mean any
> number of things so people can use RT to refer to variety of things. So
> please always clarify what you mean exactly.

Do not _ever_ listen to marketing... Also your argument is circular, you
cannot state clearly what is meant if every word means something else to
others.