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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] 4.6.4-rt8
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:31:22 +0200
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:

> * Steven Rostedt | 2016-07-15 11:22:44 [-0400]:
>
> >> Changes since v4.6.4-rt8:
> >>
> >> - Import Thomas' timer rework known as "timer: Refactor the timer
> >> wheel" patch set which made its way into the -TIP tree. With this
> >> changes we get NOHZ_FULL working. Finally.
> >
> >Does this mean that there's no more 1 second tick?
>
> >From tracing there a timer wakeup each second but before we had a wakeup
> each jiffy because we could not lookup the next timer without taking the
> base lock which we can do now.
> However if there is room for improvement to have a wakeup every two or
> five seconds I am all for it because from RT point of view we should be
> able to do the same things as the non-RT version.

Ah, that's right. I forgot that NOHZ_FULL was broken in -rt, which
sorta defeated the point, as NOHZ_FULL is a birth child of -rt in the
first place.

OK, thanks for clarifying.

-- Steve

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