Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Dynamic Tick: Enabling longer sleep times on 32-bit machines | From | john stultz <> | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:21 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 14:57 -0600, Jon Hunter wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > I could have sworn this was in mainline by now, but I recently was > > looking for the code and can't find it there or in -tip either. > > > > Thomas, are they just hiding somewhere I can't find? > > > > Jon, you've been terribly patient and great about resubmitting these > > patches over and over. If I'm not just being crazy and missing these > > patches in front of my nose, are you still willing to submit them > > again? I think they'll be quite useful as folks start pushing the NOHZ > > idle times out. > > Absolutely! It is still on my to-do list, but unfortunately, I got busy > with a couple other things. > > With regard to the last patch set I submitted for this, Thomas had an > issue with one of the patches. I understand the concern, but I am not > sure which would be the preferred way to handle this. See the below thread: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125062817124381&w=2 > > If you or Thomas have any feedback on this, I could re-work the patch > against the latest kernel tree.
Ok. I think Thomas is right there, setting the expiration to max_time_delta makes the most sense. Honestly I suspect we don't ever hit that case in the current code (no timers for 12 days), so its probably an untested code path as it stands.
thanks -john
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