Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:54:55 +0900 | | From | Tejun Heo <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] workqueue: Schedule work on non-idle cpu instead of current one |
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Hello, Viresh.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:34:05PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > - A cpu has programmed a timer and is IDLE now. > - CPU gets into interrupt handler due to timer and queues a work. As the CPU is > currently IDLE, we can queue this work to some other CPU.
I'm still a bit confused, if the CPU is already running the IRQ handler, the CPU is not idle by definition. What am I missing here?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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