Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:15:16 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] Turn off the tick even when not idle |
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Hi Josh,
> The following patch (not for application any time soon) hacks away the > timer interrupt even when not idle, by triggering the nohz mechanism > even if not running the idle task.
Nice :) I tested it on a ppc64 box, and threw the graphs up here:
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/linux/osjitter/
With the patch applied, we saw only one interruption in the 10 second window I measured.
Anton
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