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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 06:18:55 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] nohz: Use sysidle detection to let the
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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:19:12AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:04:43AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> > On 12/18/2013 06:51 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Thanks Fredic!
> > It is much better on powersaving POV compare to current nohz_full. :)
> 
> If you're using nohz_full for powersaving, you're doing it wrong.

They just want nohz_full not to totally break powersavings when the
entire system is idle.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul