Re: [RFC PATCH] Turn off the tick even when not idle

[jim owens]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Good idea. Thought so for a long time. Thanks for working on it. Many of
> the events can be deferred if nothing is happening in the system.
> vm statistics, data expiration from caches etc. Not sure what to do about
> the per cpu threads generated by various kernel subsystems though.

might be a little easier to sort this out after Jens code
is in to create workers dynamically instead of on every cpu.
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