Re: [PATCH 3/6] psi: eliminate lazy clock mode

Peter Zijlstra
2018-12-17T14:58:21Z

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 09:15:05AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Eliminate the idle mode and keep the worker doing 2s update intervals
> at all times.

That sounds like a bad deal.. esp. so for battery powered devices like
say Andoird.

In general the push has been to always idle everything, see NOHZ and
NOHZ_FULL and all the work that's being put into getting rid of any and
all period work.