Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

Andi Kleen
2007-03-06T21:22:41Z

> I believe this was just a quick fix in response to Ingo breaking the VMI
> build yesterday by disabling NO_IDLE_HZ on us. There is no technical
> reason why NO_IDLE_HZ=y can't coexist with NO_HZ.

Well it's nasty that you force NO_IDLE_HZ on all of paravirt ops users.
I think the right solution is to make VMI depend on (not select) NO_IDLE_HZ
until you can fix your code to work with dynticks properly.

-Andi