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

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:05:06AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:42, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Srivatsa is still working on the smp-aware scalable version, so it's back in 
> the development phase.

Has there been an updated version of Thomas's C-state bus-mastering
measurement patch?

					- Ted

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