From: jim owens <jowens@hp.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
Tim Pepper <lnxninja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Turn off the tick even when not idle
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:46:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9D4FE8.2010505@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0909011554590.12112@V090114053VZO-1>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 15:43 [RFC PATCH] Turn off the tick even when not idle Josh Triplett
2009-09-01 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-01 16:46 ` jim owens [this message]
2009-09-01 18:08 ` Josh Triplett
2009-09-01 22:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-01 20:26 ` Josh Triplett
2009-09-02 20:01 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-02 21:30 ` Josh Triplett
2009-09-03 5:15 ` Anton Blanchard
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