[PATCH RFC nohz_full 0/7] v3 Provide infrastructure for full-system idle

2013-07-08 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Whenever there is at least one non-idle CPU, it is necessary to periodically update timekeeping information. Before NO_HZ_FULL, this updating was carried out by the scheduling-clock tick, which ran on every non-idle CPU. With the advent of NO_HZ_FULL, it is possible to have non-idle CPUs that

[PATCH RFC nohz_full 0/7] v3 Provide infrastructure for full-system idle

2013-07-08 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Whenever there is at least one non-idle CPU, it is necessary to periodically update timekeeping information. Before NO_HZ_FULL, this updating was carried out by the scheduling-clock tick, which ran on every non-idle CPU. With the advent of NO_HZ_FULL, it is possible to have non-idle CPUs that