On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:01:14AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Now, I see what you're trying to do, but who actually uses this data? I ... don't. There seems to be the notion that since we're polling, that shouldn't count against the runtime of the thread. But the thread has chosen to poll! It is doing something! For one thing, it's preventing the CPU from entering an idle state. It seems absolutely fair to accuont this poll time to the runtime of the thread. Clearly i'm missing something.