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Date:   Sat, 7 Apr 2018 04:36:25 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 06/10] time: tick-sched: Split
 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:41:13AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> 
> In order to address the issue with short idle duration predictions
> by the idle governor after the scheduler tick has been stopped, split
> tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() into two separate routines, one computing
> the time to the next timer event and the other simply stopping the
> tick when the time to the next timer event is known.
> 
> Prepare these two routines to be called separately, as one of them
> will be called by the idle governor in the cpuidle_select() code
> path after subsequent changes.
> 
> Update the former callers of tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to use
> the new routines, tick_nohz_next_event() and tick_nohz_stop_tick(),
> instead of it and move the updates of the sleep_length field in
> struct tick_sched into __tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick() as it doesn't
> need to be updated anywhere else.
> 
> There should be no intentional visible changes in functionality
> resulting from this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

Thanks! And sorry for the slow reviews, the changes are sensitive
and I want to make sure we are not breaking some subtlety.