Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/6] sched, nohz: introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:24:39 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 15:03 -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote: > plain text document attachment (introduce_rq_nohz_flags.patch) > Introduce nohz_flags in the struct rq, which will track two flags for now. > > NOHZ_TICK_STOPPED will convey the stop tick status that gets set when > the tick is stopped and cleared during the first busy tick after the tick > is restarted. > > NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK will track the need for nohz idle load balance > on this rq.
The changelog is missing the crucial part: Why are we doing this? :-)
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