Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/32] nohz: Move rcu dynticks idle mode handling to idle enter/exit APIs | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:24:31 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 18:41 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Now we could possibly add magic to rcu_read_unlock_special() to restart > > the tick in that case. > > Not from NMI handlers we can't. Unless I am really confused about the > code that restarts the tick. Which is not impossible, but ...
Uhm.. good point ;-) yes that will be somewhat detrimental to the overall OS health if we attempt such a thing.
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