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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] nohz1: Documentation
    On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:

    > For now, no, if more than one process is scheduled on the CPU, we fall
    > out of dynamic tick mode. In the future, we can add SCHED_FIFO task
    > scheduled in to trigger it. But lets conquer that after we successfully
    > conquer the current changes.

    Be glad to see whatever is possible merged as soon as possible. But be
    aware that we will fall out of dyntick mode at mininum every 2 seconds
    because that is when the per cpu vm stats and the slab scanning is
    occurring. These are both deferrable activities.




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