Re: [PATCH 1/3] dynticks - implement no idle hz for x86

[Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>]

On 9/7/05, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:27:43AM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> > enter_all_cpus_idle() and exit_all_cpus_idle() would be better?
> 
> Looks perfect.
> 
> > No, I was saying what you were, if a little unclearly, so the caller
> > does something like:
> >
> > current_dyn_tick_timer->reprogram();
> > check_cpu_mask(nohz_cpu_mask);
> > if (we_are_last_idle)
> >   enter_all_cpus_idle();
> 
> Looks fine!

Great!

Thanks,
Nish
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