Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry

[Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:59:05 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:21:25AM -0800, Jacob Pan wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:06:30 +0100
> > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > Which one? That is, I cannot find a idle_cpu() call from
> > > tick_nohz_irq_exit().  
> > it is  tick_irq_exit(void), i will not call tick_nohz_irq_exit() if
> > !idle_cpu()  
> 
> Ah, but I think we really only need to test for the idle task there,
> the && need_resched() part of that function takes care of the rest.
> 
> Once we have need_resched() set, we'll be on our way to
> tick_nohz_idle_exit() to restart the tick again.
Tested, it did the trick also. has less impact than changing idle_cpu().

My other point is the callers of idle_cpu() will see it returns false
but in forced idle. Can't see anything bad since we skip load balance.

Thanks, 

Jacob