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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linaro Networking <linaro-networking@linaro.org>,
	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Query] Can we use normal timers (kernel/timer.c) while in NO_HZ_FULL mode?
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:06:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140604140650.GE13827@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKohpo=SFU4vyHTPcZHSFvbaviZJrxENOtJcqUd7Z5qcGpb0Fw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:23:20PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 4 June 2014 19:14, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> > BTW, shouldn't we do something similar for mod_timer_pinned()
> > as well ?
> 
> Also, as we aren't forcing get_nohz_timer_target() to _not_ return
> a NO_HZ_FULL, we might end up queuing a timer on NO_HZ_FULL
> cpu with the unpinned timer APIs. And the same question might
> stand true for this case as well?

Right.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04 11:41 [Query] Can we use normal timers (kernel/timer.c) while in NO_HZ_FULL mode? Viresh Kumar
2014-06-04 13:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-06-04 13:44   ` Viresh Kumar
2014-06-04 13:53     ` Viresh Kumar
2014-06-04 14:06       ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2014-06-04 14:05     ` Frederic Weisbecker

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