[ ** BUGGY PATCH: I need to put more thinking into this ** ]

We want the nohz load balancer to be an idle CPU, thus
move that selection to strict dyntick idle logic.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abog...@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <ge...@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gi...@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanak...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
[ added movement of calc_load_exit_idle() ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index 73f339b..1b607bce 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -442,9 +442,6 @@ static ktime_t tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(struct tick_sched 
*ts,
                 * the scheduler tick in nohz_restart_sched_tick.
                 */
                if (!ts->tick_stopped) {
-                       nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
-                       calc_load_enter_idle();
-
                        ts->last_tick = hrtimer_get_expires(&ts->sched_timer);
                        ts->tick_stopped = 1;
                }
@@ -540,8 +537,11 @@ static void __tick_nohz_idle_enter(struct tick_sched *ts)
                        ts->idle_expires = expires;
                }
 
-               if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped)
+               if (!was_stopped && ts->tick_stopped) {
                        ts->idle_jiffies = ts->last_jiffies;
+                       nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
+                       calc_load_enter_idle();
+               }
        }
 }
 
@@ -649,7 +649,6 @@ static void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(struct tick_sched 
*ts, ktime_t now)
        tick_do_update_jiffies64(now);
        update_cpu_load_nohz();
 
-       calc_load_exit_idle();
        touch_softlockup_watchdog();
        /*
         * Cancel the scheduled timer and restore the tick
@@ -709,6 +708,8 @@ void tick_nohz_idle_exit(void)
                tick_nohz_stop_idle(cpu, now);
 
        if (ts->tick_stopped) {
+               nohz_balance_enter_idle(cpu);
+               calc_load_exit_idle();
                tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(ts, now);
                tick_nohz_account_idle_ticks(ts);
        }
-- 
1.7.5.4

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