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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] cache __next_timer_interrupt result
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:

> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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> Each time a cpu goes to sleep on a NOHZ=y system the timer wheel is
> searched for the next timer interrupt. It can take quite a few cycles
> to find the next pending timer. This patch adds a field to tvec_base
> that caches the result of __next_timer_interrupt. The hit ratio is
> around 80% on my thinkpad under normal use, on a server I've seen

Nice, I like it.

> hit ratios from 5% to 95% dependent on the workload.

Which workloads result in lower hit ratios ? Heavy networking ?

Thanks,

tglx


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