Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Avoid triggering the softlockup BUG when offline for too long.

["Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@xxxxxxxxx>]

> * stolen time, as well as blocked time, does not have it's corresponding
> per processor variable updated all in once, but in multiples of
> NS_PER_TICK chuncks. If we're out for too long, we could detect stolen
> being too great multiple times, leading to far more calls to the
> softlockup watchdog then we want too.
FYI, I just made a simple test checking for stolen time instead of
offline, and it's in fact called way too oftenly.

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