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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Venki Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.jf.intel.com>,
	alex.shi@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] sched, nohz: introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:24:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322130279.2921.7.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111118230553.882444396@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com>

On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 15:03 -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> plain text document attachment (introduce_rq_nohz_flags.patch)
> Introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq, which will track two flags for now.
> 
> NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED will convey the stop tick status that gets set when
> the tick is stopped and cleared during the first busy tick after the tick
> is restarted.
> 
> NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK will track the need for nohz idle load balance
> on this rq.

The changelog is missing the crucial part: Why are we doing this? :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-24 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-18 23:03 [patch 0/6] sched, nohz: load balancing patches Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 23:03 ` [patch 1/6] sched, nohz: introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq Suresh Siddha
2011-11-24 10:24   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-11-28 23:59     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-29  9:47       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 23:03 ` [patch 2/6] sched, nohz: track nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_power Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 23:03 ` [patch 3/6] sched, nohz: sched group, domain aware nohz idle load balancing Suresh Siddha
2011-11-24 11:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-28 23:51     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-29  9:44       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01  1:03         ` Suresh Siddha
2011-12-01  1:17         ` Suresh Siddha
2011-12-01  8:36           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-24 11:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-28 23:58     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-29  9:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 23:03 ` [patch 4/6] sched, nohz: cleanup the find_new_ilb() using sched groups nr_busy_cpus Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 23:03 ` [patch 5/6] sched: disable sched feature TTWU_QUEUE by default Suresh Siddha
2011-11-19  4:30   ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-19  4:41     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-18 23:03 ` [patch 6/6] sched: fix the sched group node allocation for SD_OVERLAP domain Suresh Siddha
2011-12-06  9:51   ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix the sched group node allocation for SD_OVERLAP domains tip-bot for Suresh Siddha

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