Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Aug 2001 11:57:37 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: No 100 HZ timer ! |
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Hi!
> The testing I have done seems to indicate a lower overhead on a lightly > loaded system, about the same overhead with some load, and much more > overhead with a heavy load. To me this seems like the wrong thing to > do. We would like as nearly a flat overhead to load curve as we can get
Why? Higher overhead is a price for better precision timers. If you rounded all times in "tickless" mode, you'd get about same overhead, right? Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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