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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:20:29PM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Another user is RCU, the grace period is tick driven, growing these
> > ticks by a factor 50 or so might require some tinkering with forced
> > grace periods when we notice our batch queues getting too long.
>
> One could also schedule RCU via hrtimers with a large fuzz period?

You could, but then you would still have a periodic interrupt introducing
jitter into your HPC workload. The approach I suggested allows RCU to be
happy with no periodic interrupts on any CPU that has only one runnable
task that is a CPU-bound user-level task (in addition to the idle task,
of course).

Thanx, Paul


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