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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] sched: Don't account tickless CPU load on tick
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 05:01:28PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> The cpu load update on tick doesn't care about dynticks and as such is
> buggy when occuring on nohz ticks (including idle ticks) as it resets
> the jiffies snapshot that was recorded on nohz entry. We eventually
> ignore the potentially long tickless load that happened before the
> tick.

I don't get it, how can we call scheduler_tick() while
tick_nohz_tick_stopped() ?