Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 17:52:01 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
        Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] sched: introduce synchronized idle injection
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 07:28:50AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> well we have this as a driver right now that does not touch hot paths,
> but it seems you and tglx also hate that approach with a passion....

The current code is/was broken, but when I tried fixing it, tglx
objected to the entire approach yes...

Thomas, no arm twisting can convince you to reconsider the fake idle
task approach?
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