Messages in this thread | | | From | schwidefsky@de ... | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:42:35 +0200 | Subject | Re: No 100 HZ timer ! |
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>BTW. Why we need to redesign timers at all? The cost of timer interrupt >each 1/100 second is nearly zero (1000 instances on S/390 VM is not common >case - it is not reasonable to degradate performance of timers because of >this). The cost of the timer interrupts on a single image system is neglectable, true. As I already pointed out in the original proposal we are looking for a solution that will allow us to minimize the costs of the timer interrupts when we run many images. For us this case is not unusual and it is reasonable to degrade performance of a running system by a very small amount to get rid of the HZ timer. This proposal was never meant to be the perfect solution for every platform, that is why it is configuratable with the CONFIG_NO_HZ_TIMER option.
blue skies, Martin
Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Schönaicherstr. 220, D-71032 Böblingen, Telefon: 49 - (0)7031 - 16-2247 E-Mail: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
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