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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/5] powerpc: Support context tracking for Power
 pSeries
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
        paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org,
        michael@ellerman.id.au, Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:59:23 +1000
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On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:03 +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
> 
> To my understanding, it is used to enable RCU user extended quiescent
> state, so RCU on that cpu doesn't need scheduler ticks. And together
> with some other code(already in 3.10), we are able to remove the ticks
> in some cases (e.g. only 1 task running on the cpu, with some other
> limitations).

Ok, sounds interesting. Once you fix the little cosmetic issue, I don't
see any reason not to merge them as it's basically wiring up an existing
feature (in that regard the patches are pretty straightforward) and I
assume the overhead is only there when you enable it.

Cheers,
Ben.


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