Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry

Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-16T22:02:01Z

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Jacob Pan wrote:

> For the second case, which is much more rare, I think we do have next
> timer exactly one tick away. Just don't know why tick will continue into
> idle loop.

Well, it should not be hard to figure that out. There are not so many
checks involved when tick_nohz_irq_exit() is called.

Thanks,

tglx