Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:45:32PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: >> From: Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org> >> >> Allow debugfs override of sched_tick_max_deferment in order to ease >> finding/fixing the remaining issues with full nohz. >> >> The value to be written is in jiffies, and -1 means the max deferment >> is disabled (scheduler_tick_max_deferment() returns KTIME_MAX.) >> >> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org> > > So, I'm worried that it becomes a hack that everybody uses to shutdown > the tick completely then nobody will come and fix the issue that prevents > from doing it properly.
OK. > I seriously doubt this will be used for development purpose to help > fixing the real problem. Well, that's what I was using it for, until I was distracted by other tasks. > Quite the opposite. If developers want to do > testing, they can as well comment out the call to > scheduler_max_tick_deferment(). OK, fair enough. Thanks, Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
