On 05/07/2015 11:09 PM, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
> When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call
> to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the
> broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code
> handles this CPU. This is not convi
When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call
to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the
broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code
handles this CPU. This is not convincing because not only are we not
aware what the arch c
