From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161103AbWJRTPD (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:15:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161271AbWJRTPD (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:15:03 -0400 Received: from smtp108.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.218]:17341 "HELO smtp108.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161103AbWJRTPA (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:15:00 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=a0oGTr0SpCMhtrJN5HDvBwgRaIa8qRPTdmmZBic/zeOJPYJMV+ItFVP6jq7XRbP+tmCPiMoh7KZRB6WGQfmpA5uFc1hghZnsfEgKPpcUHKHvICAgrl0CJP9J31wSnIMdOdwWMXCj6erRn/FcxvjuVeefJrse8bF/2zYadBPWXlI= ; Message-ID: <45367D32.6090301@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:14:58 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: "Siddha, Suresh B" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] sched_tick with interrupts enabled References: <4536629C.4050807@yahoo.com.au> <45366DF0.6040702@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>wake_priority_sleeper should not be called from rebalance_tick. That >>code was OK where it was before, I think. > > > wake_priority_sleeper() is necessary to establish the idle state. No it isn't. It's just that if it returns nonzero, we know we are not idle so we needn't test for that again. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com