From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756014AbYGKJTF (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:19:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751074AbYGKJSy (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:18:54 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:51341 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750712AbYGKJSy (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:18:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:18:02 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Heiko Carstens Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Jan Glauber , Stefan Weinhuber , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending. Message-ID: <20080711091802.GA437@elte.hu> References: <20080711090922.GA4660@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080711090922.GA4660@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Heiko Carstens wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending. applied to tip/timers/nohz, thanks Heiko. > However there is no question that the drivers should be fixed. This > patch shouldn't be considered as a bug fix. It just is intended to > keep a system running even if device drivers are buggy. agreed. Ingo