Re: [patch 2/2] keep on ticking if oprofile is active

Martin Schwidefsky
2009-06-01T10:22:46Z

On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:09:27 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> >
> > On a NOHZ system with oprofile enabled the timer tick should not be
>
> The old style profile=... profiler should do that too.

Technically the old style profiler and NOHZ can be combined (see patch
#1 plus a fix as discussed with Thomas). On the other hand it would make
the code simpler if we just fallback to the standard tick if profile= is
used. My personal preference would be to use my patch.