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Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry

From Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry
Date 2015-11-17 00:50 +0100
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:32:38 -0800
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On 11/16/2015 3:28 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > Is this mostly an special-purpose embedded thing, or do you expect
> > distros to be enabling this?  If the former, I suggest
> > , but if distros are doing this for
> > general-purpose workloads, I instead suggest CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ.
> 
> thermal overload happens a lot on small devices, but sadly also in
> big datacenters where it is not uncommon to underprovision cooling
> capacity by a bit (it's one of those "99% of the time you only need
> THIS much, the 1% you need 30% more" and that more is expensive or
> even impractical)

CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is more inline with idle injection in that both
are targeted energy efficiency.
Checking ubuntu and fedora, seems both have CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y.
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Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-11-16 16:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-16 23:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-11-16 23:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-17 01:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-19 18:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-11-19 20:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-19 20:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-11-19 21:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-20 00:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-16 23:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-17 00:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-17 00:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-17 00:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-17 00:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-17 00:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-17 01:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2015-11-16 23:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-17 00:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2015-11-17 02:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-17 04:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-17 06:10 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-11-17 11:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> - 2015-11-17 14:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-17 14:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/4] timer: relax tick stop in idle entry "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-17 04:00 +0100

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