Re: [PATCH 0/7] Cure some vaux idle wrackage

Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-20T16:35:05Z

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:04:50PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I ran head-first into intel_powerclamp and acpi_pad yesterday -- afaict they
> try and do pretty much the same thing but both had competing sets of bugs and
> issues.
>
> Related to that I went over the tree looking for preempt_enable_no_resched()
> abuse.
>
> I know that patch 3 isn't going to be popular with Arjan but you guys are going
> to have to make that work. That stuff is hideously terrible.
>
> A note to Zhang Rui, _never_ merge EXPORTs in another maintainers' guts without
> an explicit ACK from him, Thomas was quite horrified when I asked him how
> tick_nohz_idle_{enter,exit} got exported.
>
> That said, thanks for a 'fun' two days :-(

s/vaux/faux/ .. its been a long day.. and there's far too many dead
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