Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

[Christopher Friesen]

Lee Revell wrote:
> The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the
> urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14.
>
> Anyone care to give a status report?  Con, do you feel that the last
> version you posted is ready to go in?

Last time I got interested in this, the management of the event queues 
was still a fairly major performance hit.

Has this overhead been brought down to reasonable levels?

Chris
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