Re: [Query]: tick-sched: why don't we stop tick when we are running idle task?

On 14 April 2014 15:18, Preeti Murthy preeti.lkml@gmail.com wrote:

I am not too sure about the complexity or the worthiness of this patch but just wanted to add that care must be taken to migrate the tick_sched_timer of all the remote CPUs off a hotplugged out CPU if the latter was keeping their time thus far. In the normal scenario I am guessing the tick_sched_timer dies along with the hotplugged out CPU since there is no need for it any more.

Agreed. Lets see if there is anybody in favor of this work as it is very important for some real time use cases we have. Like running data plane threads on isolated CPUs.