Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Somehow people like involuntary preemption to happen at slightly more
> than glacial pace as well.

These intervals could be dynamically established by the scheduler.

If there is a single process running on a processor and no other process
is contending then there is no need to do involuntary preemption.
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