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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make CONFIG_PARAVIRT require NO_HZ
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:29:18 +0100
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On Friday 16 March 2007 11:55, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> wrote:
> > Given all the discussion, let's just require NO_HZ when
> > CONFIG_PARAVIRT.  Anyone object?
>
> well ... why do we want this? I'd not mind making it default y if
> CONFIG_PARAVIRT is enabled, but why force it?

I guess because they don't want to debug and maintain two different timer c=
ode =

paths. It would be fine for me. !NOHZ will hopefully go away at some point
anyways and it clearly is important for virtualized environments.

Although I would prefer a select instead of a depends I think. Otherwise
the relationship will be quite unobvious.

-Andi