Re: [PATCH 0/3] timekeeping: Improved NOHZ frequency steering

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 04/24/2014 07:04 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> Continuing the sporadic work on improving the timekeeping
> frequency steering logic when NOHZ is enabled, I've made a number
> of changes to my re-implementation of Miroslav's patch (most
> recently posted here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/12/401 ),
> and I'm getting much closer results in the simulator.
> 
> Compared with Miroslav's patch, this avoids doing any extra
> divisions, and instead approximates the correction
> logarithmically. In addition to trying to lower overhead, this
> allows the other accounting bits to be managed in much the
> same way we have been doing for awhile.
> 
> This patch set contains one portion from Miroslav's patch
> (ntp_tick caching) split out into a separate logical patch.
> 
> Below are some of the simulator results (BTW Miroslav, w/ 3.15-rc,
> you'll need to revert b399fe355b30d01 to get the simulator building)
> comparing this patchset to Miroslav's patch to show we're getting in
> the right order of magnitude.
> 
> 

Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>

P.
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