Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:21:19 -0800 | From | Tony Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dynamic tick patch |
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* Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [050118 21:08]: > * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [050118 20:22]: > > > > BTW. Is it possible, when entering the "idle" loop, to quickly know an > > estimate of when the next tick shoud actually kick in ? > > Yes, see next_timer_interrupt() for that.
Hmmm, or maybe you mean _quick_estimate_ instead of next_timer_interrupt()?
I don't think there's any faster way to estimate the skippable ticks without going through the list like next_timer_interrupt already does. Does anybody have any ideas for that?
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