linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 0/7] timers: Exclude isolated cpus from timer migration

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Message-ID: <1d220f45133cf35bdb1e27877ad91d4ddbaa4146.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:01:13 +0100
From: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@...hat.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Anna-Maria Behnsen
 <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Waiman
 Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 0/7] timers: Exclude isolated cpus from timer
 migration

On Thu, 2025-11-13 at 14:12 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Le Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 09:33:17AM +0100, Gabriele Monaco a écrit :
> > The timer migration mechanism allows active CPUs to pull timers from
> > idle ones to improve the overall idle time. This is however undesired
> > when CPU intensive workloads run on isolated cores, as the algorithm
> > would move the timers from housekeeping to isolated cores, negatively
> > affecting the isolation.
> 
> Looks good to me now, thanks!

Thank you for all the comments! Will this series make it for this merge window?

Thanks,
Gabriele