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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] sched: Add NOHZ_STATS_KICK
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 05:56:32PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> In fact, we can't only rely on the tick and newly_idle load balance to
> ensure a period update of the blocked load because they can never
> happen.

I'm confused, why would the ilb not happen?