* Re: + dynticks-extend-next_timer_interrupt-to-use-a-reference-jiffie-remove-incorrect-warning-in-kernel-timerc.patch added to -mm tree
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@ 2006-10-18 20:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
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From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2006-10-18 20:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm; +Cc: cotte, mingo, LKML
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:26 -0700, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> Problem is, that the warning assumes that there are always pending timer
> events on a system when a CPU is going idle. But this is not true in
> general, the system may be waiting for an I/O interruption, or the CPU may
> wait for an interprocessor signal. The patch below removes the warning,
> please apply.
Makes sense.
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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