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SubjectRe: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:42, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the
> > urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14.
> >
> > Anyone care to give a status report? Con, do you feel that the last
> > version you posted is ready to go in?
>
> Last time I got interested in this, the management of the event queues
> was still a fairly major performance hit.
>
> Has this overhead been brought down to reasonable levels?

Srivatsa is still working on the smp-aware scalable version, so it's back in
the development phase.

Cheers,
Con
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