Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753856AbaFDOG6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 10:06:58 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com ([74.125.82.181]:46526 "EHLO mail-we0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753356AbaFDOG5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 10:06:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:06:52 +0200 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Viresh Kumar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Kevin Hilman , Daniel Lezcano , Lists linaro-kernel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linaro Networking , Preeti U Murthy Subject: Re: [Query] Can we use normal timers (kernel/timer.c) while in NO_HZ_FULL mode? Message-ID: <20140604140650.GE13827@localhost.localdomain> References: <20140604132305.GB13827@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:23:20PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 4 June 2014 19:14, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > BTW, shouldn't we do something similar for mod_timer_pinned() > > as well ? > > Also, as we aren't forcing get_nohz_timer_target() to _not_ return > a NO_HZ_FULL, we might end up queuing a timer on NO_HZ_FULL > cpu with the unpinned timer APIs. And the same question might > stand true for this case as well? Right. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/